CVE-2022-4563 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Freedom	Securedrop

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:freedom:securedrop:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
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

History

Tue, 15 Apr 2025 14:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulDB

Published: 2022-12-16T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-04-15T13:02:30.123Z

Reserved: 2022-12-16T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-4563

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:41:45.676Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-12-16T17:15:09.177

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:35:29.937

Link: CVE-2022-4563

Redhat

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