# CVE-2024-38361: Permissions processing error in spacedb

- Also known as: GO-2024-2939, GHSA-GRJV-GJGR-66G2
- Severity: CVSS 3.7 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.33.1
- Published: 2024-06-20 · Updated: 2024-08-02

## Affected

- authzed spicedb: fixed in 1.33.1
- github.com/authzed/spicedb (Go): fixed in 1.33.1

## Description

Spicedb is an Open Source, Google Zanzibar-inspired permissions database to enable fine-grained authorization for customer applications. Use of an exclusion under an arrow that has multiple resources may resolve to `NO_PERMISSION` when permission is expected. If the resource exists under *multiple* folders and the user has access to view more than a single folder, SpiceDB may report the user does not have access due to a failure in the exclusion dispatcher to request that *all* the folders in which the user is a member be returned. Permission is returned as `NO_PERMISSION` when `PERMISSION` is expected on the `CheckPermission` API. This issue has been addressed in version 1.33.1. All users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on authzed spicedb, github.com/authzed/spicedb, upgrade to a fixed version (1.33.1) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/authzed/spicedb/security/advisories/GHSA-grjv-gjgr-66g2
- https://github.com/authzed/spicedb/commit/ecef31d2b266fde17eb2c3415e2ec4ceff96fbeb

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