Access Restriction Bypass Affecting emacs package, versions [22.1,23.1]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-EMACS-2370940
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed5 Apr 2010
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 5 Apr 2010

CVE-2010-0825  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for emacs.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass lib-src/movemail.c in movemail in emacs 22 and 23 allows local users to read, modify, or delete arbitrary mailbox files via a symlink attack, related to improper file-permission checks.

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