Ethyca Fides up to 2.69.0 OAuth Client Endpoint authorization

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Ethyca Fides up to 2.69.0. This affects an unknown function of the component OAuth Client Endpoint. Executing a manipulation can lead to authorization. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2025-57817. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability has been found in Ethyca Fides up to 2.69.0 and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects some unknown functionality of the component OAuth Client Endpoint. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a authorization vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-862. The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Fides is an open-source privacy engineering platform. Prior to version 2.69.1, the OAuth client creation and update endpoints of the Fides Webserver API do not properly authorize scope assignment. This allows highly privileged users with `client:create` or `client:update` permissions to escalate their privileges to owner-level. Version 2.69.1 fixes the issue. No known workarounds are available.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2025-57817 since 08/20/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

Upgrading to version 2.69.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2025-27268). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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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
• 2.50
• 2.51
• 2.52
• 2.53
• 2.54
• 2.55
• 2.56
• 2.57
• 2.58
• 2.59
• 2.60
• 2.61
• 2.62
• 2.63
• 2.64
• 2.65
• 2.66
• 2.67
• 2.68
• 2.69.0

Website

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

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