CVE-2024-52008 Password Policy Bypass Vulnerability in Fides Webserver
Attackers can bypass client-side password checks via API to set weak passwords, facilitating account takeover in Fides.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2024-52008?
CVE-2024-52008 is a low-severity vulnerability in ethyca fides, published on 26 Nov 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
Fides is an open-source privacy engineering platform. The user invite acceptance API endpoint lacks server-side password policy enforcement, allowing users to set arbitrarily weak passwords by bypassing client-side validation. While the UI enforces password complexity requirements, direct API calls can circumvent these checks, enabling the creation of accounts with passwords as short as a single character. When an email messaging provider is enabled and a new user account is created in the system, an invite email containing a special link is sent to the new user's email address. This link directs the new user to a page where they can set their initial password. While the user interface implements password complexity checks, these validations are only performed client-side. The underlying `/api/v1/user/accept-invite` API endpoint does not implement the same password policy validations. This vulnerability allows an invited user to set an extremely weak password for their own account during the initial account setup process. Therefore that specific user's account can be compromised easily by an attacker guessing or brute forcing the password. The vulnerability has been patched in Fides version `2.50.0`. Users are advised to upgrade to this version or later to secure their systems against this threat. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
Weakness: CWE-602
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-52008?
3 open source packages ship an affected version, including ethyca-fides. It affects 1 product.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
ethyca-fides PyPI | All versions | 2.50.0 |
ethyca-fides PyPI | All versions | 2.50.0 |
ethyca-fides PyPI | All versions | 2.50.0 |
Products include Ethyca Fides.
How do I fix CVE-2024-52008?
Upgrade ethyca-fides to 2.50.0 or later.
Is CVE-2024-52008 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-52008 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in ethyca fides
- CVE-2024-45053 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability via SSTI in Fides Webserver Jinja Email Templating Engine
- CVE-2023-41319 Remote Code Execution in Custom Integration Upload in Fides
- CVE-2025-57817 Fides Webserver API is Vulnerable to OAuth Client Privilege Escalation
- CVE-2023-48224 Cryptographically Weak Generation of One-Time Codes for Identity Verification in ethyca-fides
- CVE-2023-46124 Server-Side Request Forgery Vulnerability in Custom Integration Upload
Sources
Also known as GHSA-v7vm-rhmg-8j2r, PYSEC-2026-1349.