CVE-2025-64529 LOW

CVE-2025-64529: SpiceDB's WriteRelationships fails silently if payload is too big

Vendor Authzed
Product spicedb
Weakness CWE-770 · Uncontrolled resource consumption
Published November 10, 2025
Last update November 12, 2025

CVSS base score

2.7/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality
Integrity

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U

What the vulnerability does

01Description

SpiceDB is an open source database system for creating and managing security-critical application permissions. In versions prior to 1.45.2, users who use the exclusion operator somewhere in their authorization schema; have configured their SpiceDB server such that `--write-relationships-max-updates-per-call` is bigger than 6500; and issue calls to WriteRelationships with a large enough number of updates that cause the payload to be bigger than what their datastore allows; will receive a successful response from their `WriteRelationships` call, when in reality that call failed, and receive incorrect permission check results, if those relationships had to be read to resolve the relation involving the exclusion. Version 1.45.2 contains a patch for the issue. As a workaround, set `--write-relationships-max-updates-per-call` to `1000`.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

November 10, 2025 CVE published
November 12, 2025 Record updated