CVE-2025-46331 OpenFGA Authorization Bypass

What is CVE-2025-46331?

CVE-2025-46331 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in openfga, published on 30 Apr 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

OpenFGA is a high-performance and flexible authorization/permission engine built for developers and inspired by Google Zanzibar. OpenFGA v1.8.10 to v1.3.6 (Helm chart <= openfga-0.2.28, docker <= v.1.8.10) are vulnerable to authorization bypass when certain Check and ListObject calls are executed. This issue has been patched in version 1.8.11.

Weakness: CWE-284

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-46331?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including github.com/openfga/openfga. It affects 2 products.

Products include Openfga Helm Charts, Openfga Openfga.

How do I fix CVE-2025-46331?

Upgrade github.com/openfga/openfga to 1.8.11 or later.

Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.

Is CVE-2025-46331 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-46331 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in openfga

• CVE-2026-55689 OpenFGA: OIDC audience validation skipped when --authn-oidc-audience is unset Medium 6.8
• CVE-2026-24851 OpenFGA Improper Policy Enforcement Medium 5.8
• CVE-2025-64751 OpenFGA Improper Policy Enforcement Medium 5.8
• CVE-2025-55213 OpenFGA Authorization Bypass (Check) Medium 5.8
• CVE-2025-48371 OpenFGA Authorization Bypass Medium 5.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-w222-m46c-mgh6, GO-2025-3657, MINI-c83f-559x-rcv4, MINI-ffxg-hh8w-fv4p, MINI-gc23-54g4-92q8.