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1 vulnerability by Freedom of the Press
CVE-2022-4563 (GCVE-0-2022-4563)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-12-16 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-15 13:02
VLAI?
Title
Freedom of the Press SecureDrop gpg-agent.conf symlink
Summary
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.
Severity ?
7.8 (High)
CWE
- CWE-59 - Link Following -> CWE-61 Symlink Following
Assigner
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Freedom of the Press | SecureDrop |
Affected:
n/a
|
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