Improper Handling of Insufficient Permissions or Privileges Affecting emacs package, versions [22.1,23.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.33% (25th 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-280  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade emacs to version 23.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Handling of Insufficient Permissions or Privileges 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.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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