0.0
LOW
CVE-2024-38537
"Fides Polyfill.io Client-Side Script Executable Code Injection Vulnerability"
Description

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.

INFO

Published Date :

July 2, 2024, 8:15 p.m.

Last Modified :

July 3, 2024, 12:53 p.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

0.0

Exploitability Score :

3.9
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2024-38537 has a 2 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2024-38537 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Ethyca fides
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

Here's a Python script that checks if the polyfill.io domain is present in the Content Security Policy (CSP) header of a given web application.

Python

Updated: 2 months, 2 weeks ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : July 7, 2024, 3:06 p.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.

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security cve exploit poc vulnerability

Updated: 2 weeks, 2 days ago
6375 stars 1107 fork 1107 watcher
Born at : Dec. 8, 2019, 1:03 p.m. This repo has been linked 904 different CVEs too.

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  • CVE Received by [email protected]

    Jul. 02, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description 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.
    Added Reference GitHub, Inc. https://github.com/ethyca/fides/security/advisories/GHSA-cvw4-c69g-7v7m [No types assigned]
    Added Reference GitHub, Inc. https://github.com/ethyca/fides/pull/5026 [No types assigned]
    Added Reference GitHub, Inc. https://github.com/ethyca/fides/commit/868c4d629760572192bd61db34f5a4458ed12005 [No types assigned]
    Added Reference GitHub, Inc. https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org [No types assigned]
    Added Reference GitHub, Inc. https://sansec.io/research/polyfill-supply-chain-attack [No types assigned]
    Added CWE GitHub, Inc. CWE-829
    Added CVSS V3.1 GitHub, Inc. AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:N
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