Security context
What an agent needs to avoid regressing past fixes and find the next vuln in this repo.
freedomofpress/securedrop
develop @ 811ab2a
180
Fixes
1
CVEs
CRITICAL
Peak severity
56.3%
Coverage
Highlights
Auth Bypass: 23 prior fixes. Scrutinize any change in this area.
Ansible: most-fixed (12 issues). Treat as high-risk during review.
56 high-severity fixes in this history; regressions here are high-impact.
Recurring patterns
The bug types that recur here, drawn from past fixes, not open vulnerabilities.
Auth Bypass: Concurrent WSGI worker context corruption allowed session prefix and salt leakage, resulting in authentication bypasses. Subsequent fixes had to localize state per-request.
Signature Verification Bypass: Loosely bound output matching in GPG wrapper utilities allowed signature spoofing and checkout of unverified git tags. Upgrades required strict multi-line fingerprint matching and validation of verification output lines.
Path Traversal: Insecure handling of files during upload, bulk download packaging, and deletion permitted directory traversal via uncanonicalized paths or missing filename sanitization.