PT-2022-27580 · Freedom Of The Press · Securedrop

Legoktm · Published 2022-12-16 · Updated 2023-08-10 · CVE-2022-4563

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Freedom of the Press SecureDrop (affected versions not specified)

Description A critical issue was found in Freedom of the Press SecureDrop, affecting some unknown functionality of the file gpg-agent.conf. The manipulation of this issue leads to symlink following and requires local access to approach the attack.

Recommendations To fix this issue, it is recommended to apply a patch. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2022-4563

Affected Products

Securedrop

References · 7

• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/commit/b0526a06f8ca713cce74b63e00d3730618d89691 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-4563 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-4563 · Security Note
• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/compare/2.5.0...2.5.1 · Note
• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/6704 · Note
• https://vuldb.com/?id.215972 · Note
• https://securedrop.org/news/2_5_1-security-advisory · Note