Arbitrary Command Injection Affecting emacs package, versions <1:27.2-8.el9_2.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.3% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-EMACS-7866980
  • published3 Sept 2024
  • disclosed21 Feb 2023

Introduced: 21 Feb 2023

CVE-2022-48337  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-77  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:9 emacs to version 1:27.2-8.el9_2.1 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2023:2626.

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:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

GNU Emacs through 28.2 allows attackers to execute commands via shell metacharacters in the name of a source-code file, because lib-src/etags.c uses the system C library function in its implementation of the etags program. For example, a victim may use the "etags -u *" command (suggested in the etags documentation) in a situation where the current working directory has contents that depend on untrusted input.

CVSS Scores

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