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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2022-23497 EUVD-2022-28550

Insecure file access in FreshRSS

Published Dec 9, 2022 · Updated Apr 23, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

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

VendorProductAffectedFixed
FreshRSS FreshRSS >= 1.18.0, < 1.20.2 —

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