Vulnerability · Published Dec 9, 2022 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2022-23497Insecure file access in FreshRSS

Medium 6.5

In plain English

A medium-severity information exposure in FreshRSS from FreshRSS. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.9% (higher than 60% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.5Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.9%top 39.9% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

FreshRSS is a free, self-hostable RSS aggregator. User configuration files can be accessed by a remote user. In addition to user preferences, such configurations contain hashed passwords (brypt with cost 9, salted) of FreshRSS Web interface. If the API is used, the configuration might contain a hashed password (brypt with cost 9, salted) of the GReader API, and a hashed password (MD5 salted) of the Fever API. Users should update to version 1.20.2 or edge. Users unable to upgrade can apply the patch manually or delete the file `./FreshRSS/p/ext.php`.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
FreshRSS	FreshRSS	>= 1.18.0, < 1.20.2

Weakness: CWE-200 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L

References

https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/security/advisories/GHSA-hvrj-5fwj-p7v6 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/pull/4928 x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/releases/tag/1.20.2 x_refsource_MISC