CVE-2026-41131 OpenFGA has Improper Policy Enforcement

What is CVE-2026-41131?

CVE-2026-41131 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in openfga, published on 21 Apr 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

OpenFGA is an authorization/permission engine built for developers. Prior to version 1.14.1, in specific scenarios, models using conditions with caching enabled can result in two different check requests producing the same cache key. This could result in OpenFGA reusing an earlier cached result for a subsequent request. The preconditions for vulnerability are the model having relations which rely on condition evaluation and the user having caching enabled. OpenFGA v1.14.1 contains a fix.

Weakness: CWE-863, CWE-706

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-41131?

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-2026-41131?

Upgrade github.com/openfga/openfga to 1.14.1 or later.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2026-41131 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-41131 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-57j5-qwp2-vqp6, GO-2026-5136, MINI-2vm4-ccq9-h7mm, MINI-78ph-vfw2-478p, MINI-7xv4-wjhr-659v, MINI-c6qc-58c7-285j and 14 more.