CVE-2023-36827
HighCVSS 7.5Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Elevated risk61th percentile - higher than 61% of all known CVEs
Summary
Fides is an open-source privacy engineering platform with a path traversal vulnerability in versions below 2.15.1. This allows remote attackers to access arbitrary files on the Fides webserver container's filesystem.
Risk Assessment
This vulnerability could lead to unauthorized access to sensitive data if the Fides server is directly accessible to attackers. However, if proper security measures are in place, this risk is significantly reduced.
Recommendation
It is recommended to update Fides to version 2.15.1 or later to mitigate this vulnerability. Additionally, implementing a reverse proxy can help minimize the risk of access to the Fides API.
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Original NVD description (English source)
Fides is an open-source privacy engineering platform for managing the fulfillment of data privacy requests in a runtime environment, and the enforcement of privacy regulations in code. A path traversal (directory traversal) vulnerability affects fides versions lower than version `2.15.1`, allowing remote attackers to access arbitrary files on the fides webserver container's filesystem. The vulnerability is patched in fides `2.15.1`. If the Fides webserver API is not directly accessible to attackers and is instead deployed behind a reverse proxy as recommended in Ethyca's security best practice documentation, and the reverse proxy is an AWS application load balancer, the vulnerability can't be exploited by these attackers. An AWS application load balancer will reject this attack with a 400 error. Additionally, any secrets supplied to the container using environment variables rather than a `fides.toml` configuration file are not affected by this vulnerability.
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS

