Acceptance of Extraneous Untrusted Data With Trusted Data Affecting emacs package, versions <1:26.1-12.el8_10


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-EMACS-6840462
  • published 14 May 2024
  • disclosed 25 Mar 2024

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 emacs to version 1:26.1-12.el8_10 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2024:6987.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream emacs package and not the emacs package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

In Emacs before 29.3, Gnus treats inline MIME contents as trusted.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Red Hat

5.5 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High
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SUSE

2.8 low