GHSA-g3pg-frfm-pr2mMediumCVSS 5.3
OpenFGA: ListUsers returns a deliberately-excluded user when a `but not` exclusion under a type-bound wildcard is intersected (`and`) with another relation that also grants that user
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
Description
In OpenFGA, the ListUsers API could incorrectly return a user who should have been excluded.
Preconditions
This applies if all of the following are present:
- The authorization model contains a relation defined as an intersection (and) where at least one operand is an exclusion of the form base but not excluded: e.g.
rel1: (public_user but not blocked) and rel2 - The base side of that exclusion is granted through a type-bound public wildcard (e.g. user:*).
- A user excluded by the but not clause is also granted, via a concrete tuple, through another operand of the intersection.
- Your application uses ListUsers to enumerate or enforce access
Fix
Upgrade to OpenFGA v1.18.1 or greater.
Acknowledgements
OpenFGA would like to thank @5ud0er for the detailed report.
🎯 Affected products1
- go/github.com/openfga/openfga:<= 1.18.0
🔗 References (5)
- https://github.com/openfga/openfga/security/advisories/GHSA-g3pg-frfm-pr2m
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-61709
- https://github.com/openfga/openfga/commit/171806c93b86bca29e0212ceb8b6ee9c48eb9ac3
- https://github.com/openfga/openfga/releases/tag/v1.18.1
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g3pg-frfm-pr2m