Description
Fides is an open-source privacy engineering platform. From 2.75.0 to before 2.83.2, Fides deployments that enable both subject identity verification and duplicate privacy request detection are affected by a vulnerability in which an administrator can approve a privacy request whose identity was never verified. For erasure policies, this can result in unauthorized deletion of a data subject's records across every integration configured in the affected deployment. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.83.2.
Published: 2026-05-12
Score: 6.1 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-qx5f-ghc2-7g5c Ethyca Fides has a Privacy Request Identity Verification Bypass Vulnerability via Duplicate Detection
History

Tue, 12 May 2026 23:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Ethyca
Ethyca fides
Vendors & Products Ethyca
Ethyca fides

Tue, 12 May 2026 19:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Tue, 12 May 2026 18:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description Fides is an open-source privacy engineering platform. From 2.75.0 to before 2.83.2, Fides deployments that enable both subject identity verification and duplicate privacy request detection are affected by a vulnerability in which an administrator can approve a privacy request whose identity was never verified. For erasure policies, this can result in unauthorized deletion of a data subject's records across every integration configured in the affected deployment. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.83.2.
Title Fides: Privacy Request Identity Verification Bypass Vulnerability via Duplicate Detection
Weaknesses CWE-288
CWE-306
CWE-841
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 6.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:H/SA:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-05-12T18:40:09.815Z

Reserved: 2026-04-26T12:13:55.552Z

Link: CVE-2026-42303

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-05-12T18:39:06.577Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-05-12T18:17:24.540

Modified: 2026-05-13T18:24:31.310

Link: CVE-2026-42303

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-05-12T23:30:26Z

Weaknesses