# CVE-2024-27101: Integer overflow in chunking helper causes dispatching to miss elements or panic

- Also known as: GO-2024-2597, GHSA-H3M7-RQC4-7H9P
- Severity: CVSS 7.3 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.29.2
- Published: 2024-03-01 · Updated: 2025-04-16

## Affected

- authzed spicedb: fixed in 1.29.2
- github.com/authzed/spicedb (Go): fixed in 1.29.2

## Description

SpiceDB is an open source, Google Zanzibar-inspired database for creating and managing security-critical application permissions. Integer overflow in chunking helper causes dispatching to miss elements or panic. Any SpiceDB cluster with any schema where a resource being checked has more than 65535 relationships for the same resource and subject type is affected by this problem. The CheckPermission, BulkCheckPermission, and LookupSubjects API methods are affected. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.29.2.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on authzed spicedb, github.com/authzed/spicedb, upgrade to a fixed version (1.29.2) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/authzed/spicedb/security/advisories/GHSA-h3m7-rqc4-7h9p
- https://github.com/authzed/spicedb/commit/ef443c442b96909694390324a99849b0407007fe

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