Arbitrary Command Injection Affecting emacs package, versions <27.2-150400.3.6.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.64% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES154-EMACS-3338561
  • published3 Mar 2023
  • disclosed2 Mar 2023

Introduced: 2 Mar 2023

CVE-2022-48338  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-77  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.4 emacs to version 27.2-150400.3.6.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream emacs package and not the emacs package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.4 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in GNU Emacs through 28.2. In ruby-mode.el, the ruby-find-library-file function has a local command injection vulnerability. The ruby-find-library-file function is an interactive function, and bound to C-c C-f. Inside the function, the external command gem is called through shell-command-to-string, but the feature-name parameters are not escaped. Thus, malicious Ruby source files may cause commands to be executed.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1