CVE-2026-55773

HIGH

CedarJava has a policy injection vulnerability

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

CedarJava is an open source Java implementation of the Cedar policy language, used for fine-grained authorization decisions. In versions prior to 2.3.6, 3.4.1 and 4.9.0, under certain circumstances, improper input handling could allow Cedar-expression injection via unescaped toCedarExpr(). The toCedarExpr() method on Cedar Value types does not escape special characters (" or \) when converting values to Cedar source code. If an integrator uses toCedarExpr() to build policy text at runtime from user-controlled values, an actor could inject arbitrary Cedar expressions. For example, injecting || true into a permit ... when { ... } clause could make the permit unconditional, or injecting && false into a forbid clause could prevent the forbid from triggering. This issue requires the integrator to use toCedarExpr() to build policy text at runtime from user-controlled input. This vulnerability has been fixed in versions 2.3.6, 3.4.1, and 4.9.0.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0029
EPSS Percentile 21.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-94
Status published
Products (6)
cedar-policy/cedar-java < 2.3.6
cedar-policy/cedar-java >= 3.1.2, < 3.4.1
cedar-policy/cedar-java >= 4.0.0, < 4.9.0
com.cedarpolicy/cedar-java 0 - 2.3.6Maven
com.cedarpolicy/cedar-java 3.1.2 - 3.4.1Maven
com.cedarpolicy/cedar-java 4.0.0 - 4.9.0Maven
Published Jul 13, 2026
Tracked Since Jul 14, 2026