GHSA-hr4f-6jh8-f2vq CVE-2023-45810 GO-2023-2121
OpenFGA DoS vulnerability
High
Go
- Severity
- 7.5 / 10
- High · CVSS 3.1
- Exploit chance (EPSS)
- 0.61%
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Higher than 49.12% of scored vulnerabilities.
- Known exploited
- No
- Not in CISA's catalog
- Weakness
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
- Fix
1.3.4- Upgrade github.com/openfga/openfga to this version or later
Description
Overview
OpenFGA is vulnerable to a DoS attack. When a number of ListObjects calls are executed, in some scenarios, those calls are not releasing resources even after a response has been sent, and the service as a whole becomes unresponsive.
Fix
Upgrade to v1.3.4. This upgrade is backwards compatible.
Affected versions
Go
| Package | Vulnerable | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| github.com/openfga/openfga | < 1.3.4 |
1.3.4 |
How to fix
Move to the fixed version or later with your package manager, update the lockfile, and run your tests. If the package only arrives through another dependency, upgrade that dependency first. If none of its releases pulls a fixed version yet, force the version with your package manager's override.
github.com/openfga/openfga Go → 1.3.4
- go
go get github.com/openfga/openfga@v1.3.4 && go mod tidy
Severity breakdown
CVSS 3.1 7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- High
Weakness
CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource.
How to prevent it
- Architecture and Design: Design throttling mechanisms into the system architecture. The best protection is to limit the amount of resources that an unauthorized user can cause to be expended. A strong authentication and access control model will help prevent such attacks from occurring in the first place. The login application should be protected against DoS attacks as much as possible. Limiting the database access, perhaps by caching result sets, can help minimize the resources expended. To further limit the potential for a DoS attack, consider tracking the rate of requests received from users and blocking requests that exceed a defined rate threshold.
- Architecture and Design: Mitigation of resource exhaustion attacks requires that the target system either: recognizes the attack and denies that user further access for a given amount of time, or uniformly throttles all requests in order to make it more difficult to consume resources more quickly than they can again be freed. The first of these solutions is an issue in itself though, since it may allow attackers to prevent the use of the system by a particular valid user. If the attacker impersonates the valid user, they may be able to prevent the user from accessing the server in question. The second solution is simply difficult to effectively institute -- and even when properly done, it does not provide a full solution. It simply makes the attack require more resources on the part of the attacker.
- Architecture and Design: Ensure that protocols have specific limits of scale placed on them.
- Implementation: Ensure that all failures in resource allocation place the system into a safe posture.
References
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Timeline
- Published
- Last updated by the source
- Latest EPSS score
Related advisories
| Advisory | Severity | Why it's related |
|---|---|---|
| GHSA-g3pg-frfm-pr2m 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 | Medium | Also affects github.com/openfga/openfga |
| GHSA-hcxc-wf8j-23hv OpenFGA: OIDC audience validation skipped when --authn-oidc-audience is unset | High | Also affects github.com/openfga/openfga |
| GHSA-cf98-j28v-49v6 OpenFGA Improper Policy Enforcement | Medium | Also affects github.com/openfga/openfga |
| GHSA-8396-jffm-qx4w OpenFGA has cache-key delimiter injection in shared-iterator and v2 iterator that caches enables intra-store authorization-decision poisoning | Medium | Also affects github.com/openfga/openfga |
| GHSA-57j5-qwp2-vqp6 OpenFGA has Improper Policy Enforcement | Medium | Also affects github.com/openfga/openfga |
| GHSA-68m9-983m-f3v5 OpenFGA: Unauthenticated playground endpoint discloses preshared API key in HTML response | Medium | Also affects github.com/openfga/openfga |
| GHSA-jwvj-g8pc-cx45 OpenFGA's BatchCheck within-request deduplication produces incorrect authorization decisions via list-value cache-key collision | High | Also affects github.com/openfga/openfga |
| GHSA-h6c8-cww8-35hf OpenFGA has an Authorization Bypass through cached keys | Critical | Also affects github.com/openfga/openfga |
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