{"id":"CVE-2022-4563","summary":"Freedom of the Press SecureDrop gpg-agent.conf symlink","details":"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.","modified":"2026-08-12T03:51:36.359821949Z","published":"2022-12-16T00:00:00Z","database_specific":{"osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/4xxx/CVE-2022-4563.json","cna_assigner":"VulDB","cwe_ids":["CWE-59"]},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/compare/2.5.0...2.5.1"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://vuldb.com/?id.215972"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/4xxx/CVE-2022-4563.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-4563"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://securedrop.org/news/2_5_1-security-advisory/"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/commit/b0526a06f8ca713cce74b63e00d3730618d89691"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/6704"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"8a3cfe4cbd628c53356d49b8f1efca6eac960afa"},{"fixed":"b0526a06f8ca713cce74b63e00d3730618d89691"}],"database_specific":{"extracted_events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.5.1"}],"source":["CPE_RANGE","REFERENCES"],"cpe":"cpe:2.3:a:freedom:securedrop:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"}}],"versions":["2.5.0-rc1","0.3","0.3pre","0.2","0.1"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-4563.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}