ethyca fides up to 2.49.x API Endpoint accept-invite client-side enforcement of server-side security

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in ethyca fides up to 2.49.x. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file /api/v1/user/accept-invite of the component API Endpoint. This manipulation causes client-side enforcement of server-side security. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2024-52008. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability has been found in ethyca fides up to 2.49.x and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code of the file /api/v1/user/accept-invite of the component API Endpoint. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a client-side enforcement of server-side security vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-602. The product is composed of a server that relies on the client to implement a mechanism that is intended to protect the server. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Fides is an open-source privacy engineering platform. The user invite acceptance API endpoint lacks server-side password policy enforcement, allowing users to set arbitrarily weak passwords by bypassing client-side validation. While the UI enforces password complexity requirements, direct API calls can circumvent these checks, enabling the creation of accounts with passwords as short as a single character. When an email messaging provider is enabled and a new user account is created in the system, an invite email containing a special link is sent to the new user's email address. This link directs the new user to a page where they can set their initial password. While the user interface implements password complexity checks, these validations are only performed client-side. The underlying `/api/v1/user/accept-invite` API endpoint does not implement the same password policy validations. This vulnerability allows an invited user to set an extremely weak password for their own account during the initial account setup process. Therefore that specific user's account can be compromised easily by an attacker guessing or brute forcing the password. The vulnerability has been patched in Fides version `2.50.0`. Users are advised to upgrade to this version or later to secure their systems against this threat. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

The advisory is shared at github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-52008 since 11/04/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available.

Upgrading to version 2.50.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• ethyca

Name

• fides

Version

• 2.0
• 2.1
• 2.2
• 2.3
• 2.4
• 2.5
• 2.6
• 2.7
• 2.8
• 2.9
• 2.10
• 2.11
• 2.12
• 2.13
• 2.14
• 2.15
• 2.16
• 2.17
• 2.18
• 2.19
• 2.20
• 2.21
• 2.22
• 2.23
• 2.24
• 2.25
• 2.26
• 2.27
• 2.28
• 2.29
• 2.30
• 2.31
• 2.32
• 2.33
• 2.34
• 2.35
• 2.36
• 2.37
• 2.38
• 2.39
• 2.40
• 2.41
• 2.42
• 2.43
• 2.44
• 2.45
• 2.46
• 2.47
• 2.48
• 2.49

Website

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

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