CVE-2022-4563

7.8 highEPSS 0.3%

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 23% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-59
Published: 2022-12-16
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

freedom:securedrop

References

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

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