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GHSA-cvw4-c69g-7v7m
No affected components available
Note
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.
The following sections describe this vulnerability prior to the domain level intervention, when it was still exploitable.
Impact
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.
On June 25th, 2024, Sansec published the following regarding the polyfill.io domain.
The polyfill.js is a popular open source library to support older browsers. 100K+ sites embed it using the cdn.polyfill.io domain... However, in February this year, a Chinese company bought the domain and the Github account. Since then, this domain was caught injecting malware on mobile devices via any site that embeds cdn.polyfill.io.
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 compromised domain.
No exploitation of fides.js via polyfill.io has been identified at this time, but other script developers who use https://cdn.polyfill.io/v2/polyfill.min.js have reported redirects to malicious websites.
Patches
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.
Workarounds
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. caniuse.com/fetch estimates that 97.52% of browser users use a browser that supports the fetch standard.
References
- https://sansec.io/research/polyfill-supply-chain-attack
- https://github.com/ethyca/fides/pull/5026/
- https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/
The vulnerability can be exploited over the network without needing physical access. It is easy for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker does not need any special privileges or access rights. No user interaction is needed for the attacker to exploit this vulnerability. The impact is confined to the system where the vulnerability exists.
No exploitation activity has been observed at this time. Continue routine monitoring.
The exploit probability is very low. The vulnerability is unlikely to be exploited in the next 30 days.
We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.
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