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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2024-07-02T19:50:10.275Z

Updated: 2024-08-02T04:12:24.976Z

Reserved: 2024-06-18T16:37:02.729Z

Link: CVE-2024-38537

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-07-02T20:11:41.164Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-07-02T20:15:05.860

Modified: 2024-07-03T12:53:24.977

Link: CVE-2024-38537

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