Ethyca Fides up to 2.15.1 resource consumption

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A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in Ethyca Fides up to 2.15.1. Affected is an unknown function. Performing a manipulation results in resource consumption. This vulnerability was named CVE-2023-37481. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Ethyca Fides up to 2.15.1. This affects some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource consumption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-400. The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The weakness was presented 07/18/2023 as GHSA-3rw2-wfc8-wmj5. The advisory is shared at github.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2023-37481 since 07/06/2023. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1499 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 2.16.0 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 8beaace082b325e693dc7682029a3cb7e6c2b69d is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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• Ethyca

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• Fides

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• 2.15.0
• 2.15.1

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• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/ethyca/fides/

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