CVE-2025-65111 SpiceDB's LookupResources with Multiple Entrypoints across Different Definitions Can Return Incomplete Results

What is CVE-2025-65111?

CVE-2025-65111 is a low-severity vulnerability in authzed spicedb, published on 21 Nov 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

SpiceDB is an open source database system for creating and managing security-critical application permissions. Prior to version 1.47.1, if a schema includes the following characteristics: permission defined in terms of a union (+) and that union references the same relation on both sides (but one side arrows to a different permission). Then SpiceDB may have missing LookupResources results when checking the permission. This only affects LookupResources; other APIs calculate permissionship correctly. The issue is fixed in version 1.47.1.

Weakness: CWE-277

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-65111?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including github.com/authzed/spicedb. It affects 1 product.

Products include Authzed Spicedb.

How do I fix CVE-2025-65111?

Upgrade github.com/authzed/spicedb to 1.47.1 or later.

Is CVE-2025-65111 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-65111 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in authzed spicedb

• CVE-2023-29193 SpiceDB binding metrics port to untrusted networks and can leak command-line flags High 8.7
• CVE-2022-21646 Lookup operations do not take into account wildcards in SpiceDB High 8.1
• CVE-2024-27101 Integer overflow in chunking helper causes dispatching to miss elements or panic High 7.3
• CVE-2026-40091 SpiceDB: SPICEDB_DATASTORE_CONN_URI is leaked on startup logs Medium 6.0
• CVE-2023-46255 `SPICEDB_DATASTORE_CONN_URI` is leaked when URI cannot be parsed Medium 4.2

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-9m7r-g8hg-x3vr, GO-2025-4151.