# CVE-2025-64529: SpiceDB's WriteRelationships fails silently if payload is too big

- Also known as: GO-2025-4120, GHSA-PM3X-JRHH-QCR7
- Severity: CVSS 2.7 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.45.2
- Published: 2025-11-10 · Updated: 2025-11-12

## Affected

- authzed spicedb: fixed in 1.45.2
- github.com/authzed/spicedb (Go): fixed in 1.45.2

## Description

SpiceDB is an open source database system for creating and managing security-critical application permissions. In versions prior to 1.45.2, users who use the exclusion operator somewhere in their authorization schema; have configured their SpiceDB server such that `--write-relationships-max-updates-per-call` is bigger than 6500; and issue calls to WriteRelationships with a large enough number of updates that cause the payload to be bigger than what their datastore allows; will receive a successful response from their `WriteRelationships` call, when in reality that call failed, and receive incorrect permission check results, if those relationships had to be read to resolve the relation involving the exclusion. Version 1.45.2 contains a patch for the issue. As a workaround, set `--write-relationships-max-updates-per-call` to `1000`.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on authzed spicedb, github.com/authzed/spicedb, upgrade to a fixed version (1.45.2) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/authzed/spicedb/security/advisories/GHSA-pm3x-jrhh-qcr7

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