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Low · 2.7 CVE-2025-64529 EUVD-2025-50833GHSA-pm3x-jrhh-qcr7GO-2025-4120

SpiceDB's WriteRelationships fails silently if payload is too big

Published Nov 10, 2025 · Updated Nov 12, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

SpiceDB is an open source database system for creating and managing security-critical application permissions. In versions prior to 1.45.2, users who use the exclusion operator somewhere in their authorization schema; have configured their SpiceDB server such that `--write-relationships-max-updates-per-call` is bigger than 6500; and issue calls to WriteRelationships with a large enough number of updates that cause the payload to be bigger than what their datastore allows; will receive a successful response from their `WriteRelationships` call, when in reality that call failed, and receive incorrect permission check results, if those relationships had to be read to resolve the relation involving the exclusion. Version 1.45.2 contains a patch for the issue. As a workaround, set `--write-relationships-max-updates-per-call` to `1000`.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
authzed spicedb < 1.45.2 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/authzed/spicedb < 1.45.2 1.45.2 GHSA-pm3x-jrhh-qcr7

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