CVE-2023-37481
The Fides webserver is vulnerable to a type of Denial of Service (DoS) attack.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.70%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
Fides is an open-source privacy engineering platform for managing data privacy requests and privacy regulations. The Fides webserver is vulnerable to a type of Denial of Service (DoS) attack. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to upload zip files containing malicious SVG bombs (similar to a billion laughs attack), causing resource exhaustion in Admin UI browser tabs and creating a persistent denial of service of the 'new connector' page (`datastore-connection/new`). This vulnerability affects Fides versions `2.11.0` through `2.15.1`. Exploitation is limited to users with elevated privileges with the `CONNECTOR_TEMPLATE_REGISTER` scope, which includes root users and users with the owner role. The vulnerability has been patched in Fides version `2.16.0`. Users are advised to upgrade to this version or later to secure their systems against this threat. There is no known workaround to remediate this vulnerability without upgrading.
- CVSS 3.1
- 4.9 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.70% probability · 51th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-400
- Affected
- ethyca/fides
- Source
- security-advisories@github.com
References
- https://github.com/ethyca/fides/commit/8beaace082b325e693dc7682029a3cb7e6c2b69dPatch
- https://github.com/ethyca/fides/security/advisories/GHSA-3rw2-wfc8-wmj5Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/ethyca/fides/commit/8beaace082b325e693dc7682029a3cb7e6c2b69dPatch
- https://github.com/ethyca/fides/security/advisories/GHSA-3rw2-wfc8-wmj5Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.