Machine-written summary
Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.
Fides' fides.js script (PyPI package ethyca-fides, versions before 2.39.1) loaded code from the polyfill.io domain for legacy browsers such as IE11 that lack fetch support. Users of those legacy browsers who visited a page serving fides.js could have downloaded and run malicious scripts from the compromised domain. Upgrade to ethyca-fides 2.39.1 or later. The source notes that Cloudflare and Namecheap later blocked polyfill.io from resolving, which made the issue unexploitable.
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Severity and exploitation
| Score | Rating | CVSS | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.0 | None | 3.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:N | CNA (GitHub_M) |
- CISA KEV Not listed.
- EPSS 0.014, the 73rd percentile, on 7 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Timeline
- 31 Oct 2026, 14:35 UTC First seen by agentprime
- 31 Oct 2026, 14:35 UTC Confirmed by OSV
Sources
- GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-cvw4-c69g-7v7m
- OSV: GHSA-cvw4-c69g-7v7m
- github.com/ethyca/fides/security/advisories/GHSA-cvw4-c69g-7v7m
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38537
- github.com/ethyca/fides/pull/5026
- github.com/ethyca/fides/commit/868c4d629760572192bd61db34f5a4458ed12005
- fetch.spec.whatwg.org
- github.com/ethyca/fides
- sansec.io/research/polyfill-supply-chain-attack