CVE-2022-4563 is a critical symlink following vulnerability (CWE-59) affecting Freedom of the Press SecureDrop, specifically within an unknown function of the gpg-agent.conf file. This flaw requires local access for exploitation. The CVSS score of 7.8 (High) indicates that a successful attack could lead to high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability. A patch (b0526a06f8ca713cce74b63e00d3730618d89691) is available to remediate this issue.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:freedom:securedrop:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.