CVE-2023-36827

CVE-2023-36827 (Fides) : A path traversal vulnerability affects Fides webserver in versions below 2.15.1, enabling remote attackers to access arbitrary files on the webserver container filesystem. The issue is fixed in 2.15.1. If the webserver API is behind a reverse proxy and the proxy is an AWS...

CVE-2023-36827 Fides vulnerable to Path Traversal in Webserver API

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. A path traversal directory traversal vulnerability affects fides versions lower than version 2.15.1, allowing...

Apple's Tracking-Prevention Feature in Safari has a Privacy Bug

Last month, engineers at Google published a very curious privacy bug in Apple's Safari web browser. Apple's Intelligent Tracking Prevention, a feature designed to reduce user tracking, has vulnerabilities that themselves allow user tracking. Some details: ITP detects and blocks tracking on the we...

Stealing Browsing History Using Your Phone's Ambient Light Sensor

There has been a flurry of research into using the various sensors on your phone to steal data in surprising ways. Here's another: using the phone's ambient light sensor to detect what's on the screen. It's a proof of concept, but the paper's general conclusions are correct: There is a lesson her...