# CVE-2026-55170: OpenFGA MySQL backend: case-insensitive collation on identifier columns causes incorrect authorization decisions

- Also known as: GHSA-CF98-J28V-49V6, GO-2026-5322
- Severity: CVSS 2.1 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.18.0
- Published: 2026-07-09 · Updated: 2026-07-10

## Affected

- openfga: fixed in 1.18.0
- github.com/openfga/openfga (Go): fixed in 1.18.0

## Description

OpenFGA is an authorization/permission engine built for developers. Prior to 1.18.0, when MySQL is being used as the datastore and authorization decisions rely on case-sensitive user strings, the tuple, changelog, and authorization_model identifier columns can compare case-distinct values such as user:Alice and user:alice as equivalent, causing two distinct check requests to return the same response. This issue is fixed in 1.18.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on openfga, github.com/openfga/openfga, upgrade to a fixed version (1.18.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/openfga/openfga/security/advisories/GHSA-cf98-j28v-49v6
- https://github.com/openfga/helm-charts/commit/96d5517a2693ff5def451dee7d6b9d1baeb281f8
- https://github.com/openfga/openfga/commit/a2e0dbefc3e01a95c785f81a3563bc6571b08b11
- https://github.com/openfga/helm-charts/releases/tag/openfga-0.3.9
- https://github.com/openfga/openfga/releases/tag/v1.18.0

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