CVE-2022-4563

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Summary

CVECVE-2022-4563
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-12-16 17:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:58:00 UTC
DescriptionA 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-59

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Freedom Securedrop All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Comparing 2.5.0...2.5.1 · freedomofpress/securedrop · GitHub MISC github.com
Manipulate gpg config file as www-data · freedomofpress/securedrop@b0526a0 · GitHub N/A github.com
Apply 2.5.1 fixes to develop by legoktm · Pull Request #6704 · freedomofpress/securedrop · GitHub N/A github.com
Security Advisory: Permissions-related vulnerability MISC securedrop.org
CVE-2022-4563 | Freedom of the Press SecureDrop gpg-agent.conf symlink (ID 6704) N/A vuldb.com
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