CVE-2026-55771

CedarJava has policy injection, type confusion, and incorrect equality comparison vulnerabilities

Published Jul 13, 2026 CVSS 3.1 · 8.8 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
CedarJava is an open source Java implementation of the Cedar policy language, used for fine-grained authorization decisions. In versions prior to 4.9.0, the EntityIdentifier.equals() has inverted null/self branches which could lead to incorrect equality comparisons. The EntityIdentifier.equals() method has inverted logic for null and self-reference checks, returning true for null comparisons and false for self-comparisons. This does not affect Cedar authorization decisions (computed in Rust from JSON), but could affect integrators who perform their own equality checks on entity identifiers. This issue has been fixed in version 4.9.0.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-4r9r-4425-74p7 Cedar-Java has policy injection, type confusion, and incorrect equality comparison vulnerabilities
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Cedar-policy
Cedar-policy cedar-java
Vendors & Products Cedar-policy
Cedar-policy cedar-java
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description CedarJava is an open source Java implementation of the Cedar policy language, used for fine-grained authorization decisions. In versions prior to 4.9.0, the EntityIdentifier.equals() has inverted null/self branches which could lead to incorrect equality comparisons. The EntityIdentifier.equals() method has inverted logic for null and self-reference checks, returning true for null comparisons and false for self-comparisons. This does not affect Cedar authorization decisions (computed in Rust from JSON), but could affect integrators who perform their own equality checks on entity identifiers. This issue has been fixed in version 4.9.0.
Title CedarJava has policy injection, type confusion, and incorrect equality comparison vulnerabilities
Weaknesses CWE-697
CWE-843
CWE-94
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 8.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Jul 14, 2026, 2:31 PM
Reserved
Jun 17, 2026, 2:34 PM
Status
Deferred
Published
Jul 13, 2026, 8:16 PM
Modified
Oct 24, 2026, 10:10 PM