CVE-2025-57817 (GCVE-0-2025-57817)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-08 21:17 – Updated: 2025-09-09 13:39
VLAI
Title
Fides Webserver API is Vulnerable to OAuth Client Privilege Escalation
Summary
Fides is an open-source privacy engineering platform. Prior to version 2.69.1, the OAuth client creation and update endpoints of the Fides Webserver API do not properly authorize scope assignment. This allows highly privileged users with `client:create` or `client:update` permissions to escalate their privileges to owner-level. Version 2.69.1 fixes the issue. No known workarounds are available.
Severity
8.6 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-09-09 13:38 UTC
CWE
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7823 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
ethyca fides Affected: < 2.69.1
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