Critical Vulnerability in Freedom of the Press SecureDrop: Symlink Following in gpg-agent.conf (VDB-215972)

Critical Vulnerability in Freedom of the Press SecureDrop: Symlink Following in gpg-agent.conf (VDB-215972)

CVE-2022-4563 · HIGH Severity

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

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.

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