CVE-2022-4563

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.
Link Following
ProviderTypeBase ScoreAtk. VectorAtk. ComplexityPriv. RequiredVector
NISTNIST
7.8 HIGH
LOCAL
LOW
LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
VulDBCNA
7.8 HIGH
LOCAL
LOW
LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVEADP
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CISA-ADPADP
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Base Score
CVSS 3.x
EPSS Score
Percentile: 19%
VendorProductVersion
freedomsecuredrop
𝑥
< 2.5.1
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= Vulnerable software versions
Common Weakness Enumeration
References
https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/commit/b0526a06f8ca713cce74b63e00d3730618d89691
https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/compare/2.5.0...2.5.1
https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/6704
https://securedrop.org/news/2_5_1-security-advisory/
https://vuldb.com/?id.215972
https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/commit/b0526a06f8ca713cce74b63e00d3730618d89691
https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/compare/2.5.0...2.5.1
https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/6704
https://securedrop.org/news/2_5_1-security-advisory/
https://vuldb.com/?id.215972