Fides is an open-source privacy engineering platform for managing the fulfillment of data privacy requests in a runtime environment, and the enforcement of privacy regulations in code. The Fides Privacy Center allows data subject users to submit privacy and consent requests to data controller users of the Fides web application. Privacy requests allow data subjects to submit a request to access all person data held by the data controller, or delete/erase it. Consent request allows data subject users to modify their privacy preferences for how the data controller uses their personal data e.g. data sales and sharing consent opt-in/opt-out. If `subject_identity_verification_required` in the `[execution]` section of `fides.toml` or the env var `FIDES__EXECUTION__SUBJECT_IDENTITY_VERIFICATION_REQUIRED` is set to `True` on the fides webserver backend, data subjects are sent a one-time code to their email address or phone number, depending on messaging configuration, and the one-time code must be entered in the Privacy Center UI by the data subject before the privacy or consent request is submitted. It was identified that the one-time code values for these requests were generated by the python `random` module, a cryptographically weak pseduo-random number generator (PNRG). If an attacker generates several hundred consecutive one-time codes, this vulnerability allows the attacker to predict all future one-time code values during the lifetime of the backend python process. There is no security impact on data access requests as the personal data download package is not shared in the Privacy Center itself. However, this vulnerability allows an attacker to (i) submit a verified data erasure request, resulting in deletion of data for the targeted user and (ii) submit a verified consent request, modifying a user's privacy preferences. The vulnerability has been patched in Fides version `2.24.0`. 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.

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  - Fides is an open-source privacy engineering platform for managing the fulfillment of data privacy requests
    in a runtime environment, and the enforcement of privacy regulations in code. The Fides Privacy Center
    allows data subject users to submit privacy and consent requests to data controller users of the Fides web
    application. Privacy requests allow data subjects to submit a request to access all person data held by
    the data controller, or delete/erase it. Consent request allows data subject users to modify their privacy
    preferences for how the data controller uses their personal data e.g. data sales and sharing consent opt-
    in/opt-out. If `subject_identity_verification_required` in the `[execution]` section of `fides.toml` or
    the env var `FIDES__EXECUTION__SUBJECT_IDENTITY_VERIFICATION_REQUIRED` is set to `True` on the fides
    webserver backend, data subjects are sent a one-time code to their email address or phone number,
    depending on messaging configuration, and the one-time code must be entered in the Privacy Center UI by
    the data subject before the privacy or consent request is submitted. It was identified that the one-time
    code values for these requests were generated by the python `random` module, a cryptographically weak
    pseduo-random number generator (PNRG). If an attacker generates several hundred consecutive one-time
    codes, this vulnerability allows the attacker to predict all future one-time code values during the
    lifetime of the backend python process. There is no security impact on data access requests as the
    personal data download package is not shared in the Privacy Center itself. However, this vulnerability
    allows an attacker to (i) submit a verified data erasure request, resulting in deletion of data for the
    targeted user and (ii) submit a verified consent request, modifying a user's privacy preferences. The
    vulnerability has been patched in Fides version `2.24.0`. 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.
    (CVE-2023-48224)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
412377	SCA: security update for ethyca-fides (GHSA-82vr-5769-6358)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	critical
412377	SCA: security update for ethyca-fides (GHSA-82vr-5769-6358)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	critical

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