Improper Handling of Insufficient Permissions or Privileges Affecting emacs package, versions [20.0,21.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.36% (28th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-EMACS-2370935
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed18 Apr 2000
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 Apr 2000

CVE-2000-0269  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-280  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade emacs to version 21.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Handling of Insufficient Permissions or Privileges. Emacs 20 does not properly set permissions for a slave PTY device when starting a new subprocess, which allows local users to read or modify communications between Emacs and the subprocess.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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