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CVE-2024-35189

MediumCVSS 6.5 / 10
Published May 30, 2024·Last modified Apr 10, 2026
Affected Components(0)

No affected components available

Description

Fides is an open-source privacy engineering platform. The Fides webserver has a number of endpoints that retrieve ConnectionConfiguration records and their associated secrets which can contain sensitive data (e.g. passwords, private keys, etc.). These secrets are stored encrypted at rest (in the application database), and the associated endpoints are not meant to expose that sensitive data in plaintext to API clients, as it could be compromising. Fides's developers have available to them a Pydantic field-attribute (sensitive) that they can annotate as True to indicate that a given secret field should not be exposed via the API. The application has an internal function that uses sensitive annotations to mask the sensitive fields with a "**********" placeholder value. This vulnerability is due to a bug in that function, which prevented sensitive API model fields that were nested below the root-level of a secrets object from being masked appropriately. Only the BigQuery connection configuration secrets meets these criteria: the secrets schema has a nested sensitive keyfile_creds.private_key property that is exposed in plaintext via the APIs. Connection types other than BigQuery with sensitive fields at the root-level that are not nested are properly masked with the placeholder and are not affected by this vulnerability. This vulnerability has been patched in Fides version 2.37.0. Users are advised to upgrade to this version or later to secure their systems against this threat. Users are also advised to rotate any Google Cloud secrets used for BigQuery integrations in their Fides deployments. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Risk Scores
Base Score
6.5

The vulnerability can be exploited over the network without needing physical access. It is easy for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker needs basic access or low-level privileges. No user interaction is needed for the attacker to exploit this vulnerability. The impact is confined to the system where the vulnerability exists. There is a high impact on the confidentiality of the information.

Threat Intelligence
6.0

Exploitation attempts have been detected. Elevated vigilance and prompt remediation are advised.

EPSS
0.58%

The exploit probability is very low. The vulnerability is unlikely to be exploited in the next 30 days.

Exploit
Not available

We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.

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