CVE-2023-37481

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.

• CWE-400
• CWE-400

• 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

Published

Jul 18, 2023

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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