TI-2025-29282 Aliases CVE-2025-46569 GHSA-6m8w-jc87-6cr7

OPA server Data API HTTP path injection of Rego

LOW 35CWE-863Published 2025-05-01 · Updated 2025-05-02

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: Low
Attack requirements: Present
Impact type: Security bypass, Code execution, Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: High · None · High
Fix status: Partial Red Hat: 1 without a fix

Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA, GitHub and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-863, CWE-94 and CWE-770.

Summary

Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an open source, general-purpose policy engine. Prior to version 1.4.0, when run as a server, OPA exposes an HTTP Data API for reading and writing documents. Requesting a virtual document through the Data API entails policy evaluation, where a Rego query containing a single data document reference is constructed from the requested path. This query is then used for policy evaluation. A HTTP request path can be crafted in a way that injects Rego code into the constructed query. The evaluation result cannot be made to return any other data than what is generated by the requested path, but this path can be misdirected, and the injected Rego code can be crafted to make the query succeed or fail; opening up for oracle attacks or, given the right circumstances, erroneous policy decision results. Furthermore, the injected code can be crafted to be computationally expensive, resulting in a Denial Of Service (DoS) attack. This issue has been patched in version 1.4.0. A workaround involves having network access to OPA’s RESTful APIs being limited to `localhost` and/or trusted networks, unless necessary for production reasons.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00541 45th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix Partial opa (open-policy-agent): 1.4.0github.com/open-policy-agent/opa/v1/server (Go): 1.4.0+2 more productsRed Hat: 1 without a fix

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: None
Automatable: No
Technical impact: Total

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Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
open-policy-agent	opa	before 1.4.0	1.4.0	Patch available	CNA
—	github.com/open-policy-agent/opa/v1/server (Go)	before 1.4.0	1.4.0	Patch available	GHSA-6m8w-jc87-6cr7
—	github.com/open-policy-agent/opa/server (Go)	before 1.4.0	1.4.0	Patch available	GHSA-6m8w-jc87-6cr7
—	github.com/open-policy-agent/opa (Go)	before 1.4.0	1.4.0	Patch available	GHSA-6m8w-jc87-6cr7

opa Vendoropen-policy-agent Affected before 1.4.0 Fixed in 1.4.0 Patch available CNA
github.com/open-policy-agent/opa/v1/server (Go) Vendor— Affected before 1.4.0 Fixed in 1.4.0 Patch available GHSA-6m8w-jc87-6cr7
github.com/open-policy-agent/opa/server (Go) Vendor— Affected before 1.4.0 Fixed in 1.4.0 Patch available GHSA-6m8w-jc87-6cr7
github.com/open-policy-agent/opa (Go) Vendor— Affected before 1.4.0 Fixed in 1.4.0 Patch available GHSA-6m8w-jc87-6cr7

Remediation

Fix · CNA opa (open-policy-agent) Fixed in 1.4.0
Fix · GHSA-6m8w-jc87-6cr7 github.com/open-policy-agent/opa/v1/server (Go) Fixed in 1.4.0 Advisory →
Fix · GHSA-6m8w-jc87-6cr7 github.com/open-policy-agent/opa/server (Go) Fixed in 1.4.0 Advisory →
Fix · GHSA-6m8w-jc87-6cr7 github.com/open-policy-agent/opa (Go) Fixed in 1.4.0 Advisory →

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Important. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

Product	Status	Plan or fix
Migration Toolkit for Virtualization	Affected	No fix planned: Will not fix

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-46569
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-6m8w-jc87-6cr7

References

Advisory 1

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-46569

Other 4

TI-2022-16508 OPA Compiler: Bypass of WithUnsafeBuiltins using `with` keyword to mock functions CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2022-07681 Array literal misordering in github.com/open-policy-agent/opa CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.3
TI-2022-14552 An issue in the AST parser (ast/compile.go) of Open Policy Agent v0.10.2 allows attackers… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
TI-2022-11544 An issue in the component ast/parser.go of Open Policy Agent v0.39.0 causes the… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
TI-2026-21196 opa-envoy-plugin has an Authorization Bypass via Double-Slash Path Misinterpretation in `input.parsed_path` CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.1
TI-2024-07657 OPA SMB Force-Authentication CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.3

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Sources

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