Fides Information Disclosure Vulnerability in Config API Endpoint
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Information disclosure, Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · None · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-200 and CWE-863.
Summary
Fides is an open-source privacy engineering platform for managing the fulfillment of data privacy requests in a runtime environment, and the enforcement of privacy regulations in code. The Fides webserver API allows users to retrieve its configuration using the `GET api/v1/config` endpoint. The configuration data is filtered to suppress most sensitive configuration information before it is returned to the user, but even the filtered data contains information about the internals and the backend infrastructure, such as various settings, servers’ addresses and ports and database username. This information is useful for administrative users as well as attackers, thus it should not be revealed to low-privileged users. This vulnerability allows Admin UI users with roles lower than the owner role e.g. the viewer role to retrieve the config information using the API. The vulnerability has been patched in Fides version `2.22.1`.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ethyca | fides | before 2.22.1 | 2.22.1 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | ethyca-fides (PyPI) | before 2.22.1 | 2.22.1 | Patch available | GHSA-rjxg-rpg3-9r89 |
- fides Vendorethyca Affected before 2.22.1 Fixed in 2.22.1 Patch available CNA
- ethyca-fides (PyPI) Vendor— Affected before 2.22.1 Fixed in 2.22.1 Patch available GHSA-rjxg-rpg3-9r89
Remediation
- Fix · CNA fides (ethyca) Fixed in 2.22.1
- Fix · GHSA-rjxg-rpg3-9r89 ethyca-fides (PyPI) Fixed in 2.22.1 Advisory →
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2023-46125
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-rjxg-rpg3-9r89
References
Advisory 2
More ethyca Fides vulnerabilities
- TI-2024-30165 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability via SSTI in Fides Webserver Jinja Email Templating Engine CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
- TI-2024-30164 Fides Webserver Authentication Timing-Based Username Enumeration Vulnerability CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3
- TI-2024-20599 Fides Information Disclosure Vulnerability in Privacy Center of SERVER_SIDE_FIDES_API_URL CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3
- TI-2024-23262 Sensitive Data Disclosure Vulnerability in Connection Configuration Endpoints in Fides CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
- TI-2023-26088 Cryptographically Weak Generation of One-Time Codes for Identity Verification in ethyca-fides CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
- TI-2025-35700 Fides Webserver API is Vulnerable to OAuth Client Privilege Escalation CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.6
Sources
- CVE-2023-46125 · CVE Program
- CVE-2023-46125 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-rjxg-rpg3-9r89 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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