{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-4563 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2022-4563 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2022-4563 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Freedom of the Press SecureDrop, published on 16 Dec 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2022-4563 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2022-4563 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Freedom of the Press SecureDrop, published on 16 Dec 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-4563 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Freedom of the Press SecureDrop. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-4563/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-4563/index.md)","id":"CVE-2022-4563","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-4563/index.md","name":"CVE-2022-4563","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-55vh-8q94-g3p9"],"analysis":{"component_type":"server_software","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["data_read","data_modify"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"SecureDrop server software","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A local attacker can exploit symlink following in gpg-agent.conf to read or modify sensitive files in SecureDrop.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"path_traversal"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"VulDB","cpe":[{"product":"securedrop","vendor":"freedom"}],"cvss":{"score":7.8,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-59","name":"Improper Link Resolution Before File Access"}],"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.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":false,"headline":"Freedom of the Press SecureDrop gpg-agent.conf symlink","id":"CVE-2022-4563","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"path_traversal","year":"2022"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":5,"next":{"headline":"University of Central Florida Materia API Controller api.php before cross-site request forgery","id":"CVE-2022-4564"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Meks Flexible Shortcodes \u003c 1.3.5 - Contributor+ Stored XSS","id":"CVE-2022-4562"},"products":["SecureDrop"],"published":"2022-12-16","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2025-04-15","vendors":["Freedom of the Press"]},"summary":"A local attacker can exploit symlink following in gpg-agent.conf to read or modify sensitive files in SecureDrop.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-4563/"}