Arbitrary Command Injection Affecting emacs-common 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
1.13% (63rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-EMACSCOMMON-5588842
  • published21 Feb 2023
  • disclosed21 Feb 2023

Introduced: 21 Feb 2023

CVE-2022-48339  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-77  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:9 emacs-common 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-common package and not the emacs-common package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in GNU Emacs through 28.2. htmlfontify.el has a command injection vulnerability. In the hfy-istext-command function, the parameter file and parameter srcdir come from external input, and parameters are not escaped. If a file name or directory name contains shell metacharacters, code may be executed.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1