CVE-2022-4563

HIGH 7.8CVE-2022-4563 · Published 16/12/2022 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2022-4563 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability affecting securedrop (freedom).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.31%, higher than 24.1% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 2.5.1 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
securedrop freedom	`< 2.5.1`	`2.5.1`

Description

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.

References

freedomofpress/securedrop commit b0526a0 · Patch
freedomofpress/securedrop
freedomofpress/securedrop#6704 · Third Party Advisory
securedrop.org/news/2_5_1-security-advisory
vuldb.com · Permissions Required

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