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SCA: security update for github.com/openfga/openfga (GHSA-g4v5-6f5p-m38j)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 420924

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - OpenFGA is a high-performance and flexible authorization/permission engine built for developers and
 inspired by Google Zanzibar. OpenFGA < v1.8.4 (Helm chart < openfga-0.2.22, docker < v.1.8.4) are
 vulnerable to authorization bypass when certain Check and ListObject calls are executed. Users on OpenFGA
 v1.8.4 or previous, specifically under the following conditions are affected by this authorization bypass
 vulnerability: 1. Calling Check API or ListObjects with a model that has a relation directly assignable to
 both public access AND userset with the same type. 2. A type bound public access tuple is assigned to an
 object. 3. userset tuple is not assigned to the same object. and 4. Check request's user field is a
 userset that has the same type as the type bound public access tuple's user type. Users are advised to
 upgrade to v1.8.5 which is backwards compatible. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
 (CVE-2025-25196)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g4v5-6f5p-m38j

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 420924

Version: Revision 1.12

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 2/20/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.58

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-25196

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Threat Score: 1.5

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/19/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/19/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-25196

cwe: CWE-285