Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-57816

Ethyca Fides ≤ 2.69.1

Published
08 September 2025
Modified
10 September 2025
Patch / advisory
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CVSS Score v4 6.3
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Raw vectorCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
EPSS Score 0.0043 36th percentile
Risk Priority 40 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2025-57816 is a medium-severity Improper Control of Interaction Frequency (CWE-799) vulnerability in Ethyca Fides. Its CVSS base score is 6.3 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Brute Force (T1110); ranked at the 36th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to AC-10 (Concurrent Session Control) and AC-7 (Unsuccessful Logon Attempts) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

A06:2025 Insecure Design

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

Fides is an open-source privacy engineering platform. Prior to version 2.69.1, the Fides Webserver API's built-in IP-based rate limiting is ineffective in environments with CDNs, proxies or load balancers. The system incorrectly applies rate limits based on directly connected infrastructure…

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IPs rather than client IPs, and stores counters in-memory rather than in a shared store. This allows attackers to bypass intended rate limits and potentially cause denial of service. This vulnerability only affects deployments relying on Fides's built-in rate limiting for protection. Deployments using external rate limiting solutions (WAFs, API gateways, etc.) are not affected. Version 2.69.1 fixes the issue. There are no application-level workarounds. However, rate limiting may instead be implemented externally at the infrastructure level using a WAF, API Gateway, or similar technology.

CWE(s)
CWE-799

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1110 Brute Force Credential Access
Adversaries may use brute force techniques to gain access to accounts when passwords are unknown or when password hashes are obtained.
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T1499.002 Service Exhaustion Flood Impact
Adversaries may target the different network services provided by systems to conduct a denial of service (DoS).
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T1499.003 Application Exhaustion Flood Impact
Adversaries may target resource intensive features of applications to cause a denial of service (DoS), denying availability to those applications.
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T1667 Email Bombing Impact
Adversaries may flood targeted email addresses with an overwhelming volume of messages.
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T1110.001 Password Guessing Credential Access
Adversaries with no prior knowledge of legitimate credentials within the system or environment may guess passwords to attempt access to accounts.
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T1110.003 Password Spraying Credential Access
Adversaries may use a single or small list of commonly used passwords against many different accounts to attempt to acquire valid account credentials.
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Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

CVEs Like This One

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CVE-2023-46125Same product: Ethyca Fides
CVE-2024-31223Same product: Ethyca Fides
CVE-2024-38537Same product: Ethyca Fides
CVE-2023-48224Same product: Ethyca Fides
CVE-2024-52008Same product: Ethyca Fides

Affected Assets

ethyca
fides
≤ 2.69.1

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

AC-10 Concurrent Session Control good match

ac-10 enforces a hard limit on concurrent sessions per user, directly stopping uncontrolled interaction frequency at the session level.

AC-7 Unsuccessful Logon Attempts good match

ac-7 directly enforces a limit on the frequency of invalid authentication attempts, structurally preventing the weakness for that interaction class.

SC-5 Denial-of-service Protection partial match

sc-5 reduces the impact of excessive request volume (DoS) but does not itself impose the frequency controls whose absence defines the weakness.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.IR-01 partial match
prevents

Protecting networks from unauthorized usage can incorporate rate limiting to bound interaction frequency.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

A.8.20 Networks security partial match
mitigates

Network security controls can enforce rate limiting and throttling at the perimeter.

A.8.26 Application security requirements partial match
prevents

Application security requirements explicitly include controls on interaction frequency and throttling.

A.8.27 Secure system architecture and engineering principles partial match
prevents

Secure architecture principles recommend rate-limiting and resource-management mechanisms.

A.8.28 Secure coding partial match
prevents

Secure coding practices can embed input-frequency and throttling checks in code.

A.8.6 Capacity management partial match
degrades

Capacity management directly limits request rates and resource exhaustion that CWE-799 describes.

References