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High · 8.1 CVE-2022-21646 EUVD-2022-0503GHSA-7p8f-8hjm-wm92GO-2022-0295

Lookup operations do not take into account wildcards in SpiceDB

Published Jan 11, 2022 · Updated Apr 23, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

SpiceDB is a database system for managing security-critical application permissions. Any user making use of a wildcard relationship under the right hand branch of an `exclusion` or within an `intersection` operation will see `Lookup`/`LookupResources` return a resource as "accessible" if it is *not* accessible by virtue of the inclusion of the wildcard in the intersection or the right side of the exclusion. In `v1.3.0`, the wildcard is ignored entirely in lookup's dispatch, resulting in the `banned` wildcard being ignored in the exclusion. Version 1.4.0 contains a patch for this issue. As a workaround, don't make use of wildcards on the right side of intersections or within exclusions.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
authzed spicedb = 1.3.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/authzed/spicedb >= 1.3.0, < 1.4.0 1.4.0 GHSA-7p8f-8hjm-wm92

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