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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.4

CVE-2026-55170 json

OpenFGA MySQL backend: case-insensitive collation on identifier columns causes incorrect authorization decisions

published 2026-06-18 4 mo ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also GHSA-cf98-j28v-49v6 , GO-2026-5322 , EUVD-2026-42705

cvss
5.4
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 27%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/openfga/openfga 1.18.0
  • openfga helm_charts 0.3.9
  • openfga openfga 1.18.0
  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Leap 16.0 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-55170 updated cvss 5.4

github.com/openfga/openfga: OpenFGA: Incorrect authorization decisions due to case-insensitive comparisons in MySQL datastore

  • Red Hat Multicluster Global Hub multicluster-globalhub/multicluster-globalhub-grafana-rhel9 Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 rhacm2/acm-grafana-rhel9 Red Hat Ceph Storage 6 rhceph/rhceph-6-dashboard-rhel9 Red Hat Ceph Storage 7 rhceph/grafana-rhel9 Red Hat Ceph Storage 8 rhceph/grafana-rhel9 Red Hat Ceph Storage 9 rhceph/grafana-rhel10
    +1 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 grafana
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
4 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 27% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 2.1 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
CNA 4.0 2.1 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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
NVD 3.1 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
GitHub 3.1 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/openfga/openfga
<1.18.0
1.18.0

Affected products

  • openfga openfga

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-178 Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity

References

Sources

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