Incorrect Privilege Assignment Affecting emacs-filesystem package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.42% (35th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-EMACSFILESYSTEM-2876068
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed31 Oct 2017

Introduced: 31 Oct 2017

CVE-2017-1000383  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-266  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:9 emacs-filesystem.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream emacs-filesystem package and not the emacs-filesystem package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

GNU Emacs version 25.3.1 (and other versions most likely) ignores umask when creating a backup save file ("[ORIGINAL_FILENAME]~") resulting in files that may be world readable or otherwise accessible in ways not intended by the user running the emacs binary.