Freedom of the Press SecureDrop gpg-agent.conf symlink

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.31% · top 76% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.

Weakness

• CWE-59 Link Following -> CWE-61 Symlink Following (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-59 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Freedom of the Press · SecureDrop

  • affected n/a

References (5)

• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pull/6704 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/commit/b0526a06f8ca713cce74b63e00d3730618d89691 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• https://vuldb.com/?id.215972 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/compare/2.5.0...2.5.1 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• https://securedrop.org/news/2_5_1-security-advisory/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 15 Apr 2025, 13:02 UTC.