CVE-2022-4563
A vulnerability was found in Freedom of the Press SecureDrop.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.30%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.30% probability · 22th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-59
- Affected
- freedom/securedrop
- Source
- cna@vuldb.com
References
- https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/commit/b0526a06f8ca713cce74b63e00d3730618d89691Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/compare/2.5.0...2.5.1
- https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/6704Third Party Advisory
- https://securedrop.org/news/2_5_1-security-advisory/
- https://vuldb.com/?id.215972Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/commit/b0526a06f8ca713cce74b63e00d3730618d89691Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/compare/2.5.0...2.5.1
- https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/6704Third Party Advisory
- https://securedrop.org/news/2_5_1-security-advisory/
- https://vuldb.com/?id.215972Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.