GHSA-r25m-cr6v-p9hq

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GHSA-r25m-cr6v-p9hq

Summary: ethyca-fides Webserver API Path Traversal vulnerability

Details: ### Impact A path traversal (directory traversal) vulnerability affects fides versions lower than `2.15.1`, allowing remote attackers to access arbitrary files on the fides webserver container's filesystem. ### Patches The vulnerability is patched in fides `2.15.1`. Users should upgrade to this version. ### Workarounds If the Fides webserver API is not directly accessible to attackers and is instead deployed behind a reverse proxy as recommended in Ethyca's [security best practice documentation](https://docs.ethyca.com/docs/configuration/security-practices#reverse-proxy), and the reverse proxy is an AWS application load balancer, the vulnerability can't be exploited by these attackers. An AWS application load balancer will reject this attack with a 400 error. Additionally, any secrets supplied to the container using environment variables rather than a `fides.toml` configuration file are not affected by this vulnerability.

References: https://github.com/ethyca/fides/security/advisories/GHSA-r25m-cr6v-p9hq, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-36827, https://github.com/ethyca/fides/commit/f526d9ffb176006d701493c9d0eff6b4884e811f, https://github.com/ethyca/fides, https://github.com/ethyca/fides/releases/tag/2.15.1, https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/ethyca-fides/PYSEC-2023-107.yaml