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GHSA-55VH-8Q94-G3P9

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-12-21 21:30 – Updated: 2022-12-21 21:30

Details

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)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2022-4563 (GCVE-0-2022-4563)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-12-16 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-15 13:02

Title

Freedom of the Press SecureDrop gpg-agent.conf symlink

Summary

Severity ?

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

CWE-59 - Link Following -> CWE-61 Symlink Following

Assigner

VulDB

References

URL

Tags

	https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/6704
	https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/comm…
	https://vuldb.com/?id.215972
	https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/comp…
	https://securedrop.org/news/2_5_1-security-advisory/

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Freedom of the Press	SecureDrop	Affected: n/a

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Sightings

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Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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GHSA-55VH-8Q94-G3P9

CVE-2022-4563 (GCVE-0-2022-4563)

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