CVE-2022-4563 - CVE House

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Status published High CVE-2022-4563

Freedom of the Press SecureDrop gpg-agent.conf symlink

7.8 CVSS

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

References

Affected Vendor

Freedom of the Press

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Affected Software

SecureDrop

Vulnerable Versions:

Unknown

Timeline

Official Publish: December 16th, 2022

Last Modified: April 15th, 2025

Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1574 Hijack Execution Flow

Privilege Escalation

T1222 File and Directory Permissions Modification

Defense Evasion

T1005 Data from Local System

T1565 Data Manipulation

T1078 Valid Accounts