{"id":"CVE-2022-23497","summary":"Insecure file access in FreshRSS","details":"FreshRSS is a free, self-hostable RSS aggregator. User configuration files can be accessed by a remote user. In addition to user preferences, such configurations contain hashed passwords (brypt with cost 9, salted) of FreshRSS Web interface. If the API is used, the configuration might contain a hashed password (brypt with cost 9, salted) of the GReader API, and a hashed password (MD5 salted) of the Fever API. Users should update to version 1.20.2 or edge. Users unable to upgrade can apply the patch manually or delete the file `./FreshRSS/p/ext.php`.","aliases":["GHSA-hvrj-5fwj-p7v6"],"modified":"2026-07-15T01:49:02.451817859Z","published":"2022-12-09T22:16:00.220Z","database_specific":{"osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/23xxx/CVE-2022-23497.json","cna_assigner":"GitHub_M","cwe_ids":["CWE-200"]},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/releases/tag/1.20.2"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/23xxx/CVE-2022-23497.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/security/advisories/GHSA-hvrj-5fwj-p7v6"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23497"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/pull/4928"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/freshrss/freshrss","events":[{"introduced":"769f34e958b50e748acf6a151805f4a255df2043"},{"fixed":"27b71ffa99f7dff013fb8d51d020ed628e0d2ce6"}],"database_specific":{"cpe":"cpe:2.3:a:freshrss:freshrss:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","extracted_events":[{"introduced":"1.18.0"},{"fixed":"1.20.2"}],"source":["AFFECTED_FIELD","CPE_RANGE","REFERENCES"]}}],"versions":["1.20.1","1.20.0","1.19.2","1.19.1","1.19.0","1.18.1","1.18.0"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-23497.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L"}]}