CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-4563
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-12-16
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59
Description
A vulnerability was found in Freedom of the Press SecureDrop. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file gpg-agent.conf. The manipulation leads to symlink following. Local access is required to approach this attack. The name of the patch is b0526a06f8ca713cce74b63e00d3730618d89691. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-215972.
Affected configurations
• freedom securedrop (< 2.5.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/commit/b0526a06f8ca713cce74b63e00d3730618d89691 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/compare/2.5.0...2.5.1 github.com
- https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/6704 Third Party Advisory
- https://securedrop.org/news/2_5_1-security-advisory/ securedrop.org
- https://vuldb.com/?id.215972 Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/commit/b0526a06f8ca713cce74b63e00d3730618d89691 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/compare/2.5.0...2.5.1 github.com
- https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/6704 Third Party Advisory
- https://securedrop.org/news/2_5_1-security-advisory/ securedrop.org
- https://vuldb.com/?id.215972 Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory