FKIE_CVE-2024-38537

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-07-02 20:15 - Updated: 2025-09-02 20:27
Severity ?
0.0 (None) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:N
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Fides is an open-source privacy engineering platform. `fides.js`, a client-side script used to interact with the consent management features of Fides, used the `polyfill.io` domain in a very limited edge case, when it detected a legacy browser such as IE11 that did not support the fetch standard. Therefore it was possible for users of legacy, pre-2017 browsers who navigate to a page serving `fides.js` to download and execute malicious scripts from the `polyfill.io` domain when the domain was compromised and serving malware. No exploitation of `fides.js` via `polyfill.io` has been identified as of time of publication. The vulnerability has been patched in Fides version `2.39.1`. Users are advised to upgrade to this version or later to secure their systems against this threat. On Thursday, June 27, 2024, Cloudflare and Namecheap intervened at a domain level to ensure `polyfill.io` and its subdomains could not resolve to the compromised service, rendering this vulnerability unexploitable. Prior to the domain level intervention, there were no server-side workarounds and the confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts of this vulnerability were high. Clients could ensure they were not affected by using a modern browser that supported the fetch standard.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://fetch.spec.whatwg.orgProduct
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/ethyca/fides/commit/868c4d629760572192bd61db34f5a4458ed12005Patch
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/ethyca/fides/pull/5026Issue Tracking, Patch
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/ethyca/fides/security/advisories/GHSA-cvw4-c69g-7v7mPatch, Third Party Advisory
security-advisories@github.comhttps://sansec.io/research/polyfill-supply-chain-attackProduct
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://fetch.spec.whatwg.orgProduct
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/ethyca/fides/commit/868c4d629760572192bd61db34f5a4458ed12005Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/ethyca/fides/pull/5026Issue Tracking, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/ethyca/fides/security/advisories/GHSA-cvw4-c69g-7v7mPatch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sansec.io/research/polyfill-supply-chain-attackProduct
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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