CVE-2022-4563

Summary

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.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

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

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/6704
• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/commit/b0526a06f8ca713cce74b63e00d3730618d89691
• https://vuldb.com/?id.215972
• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/compare/2.5.0…2.5.1
• https://securedrop.org/news/2_5_1-security-advisory/

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

• SSVC:
• Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical Impact: total

References

• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/6704
• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/commit/b0526a06f8ca713cce74b63e00d3730618d89691
• https://vuldb.com/?id.215972
• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/compare/2.5.0…2.5.1
• https://securedrop.org/news/2_5_1-security-advisory/

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