CVE-2000-0270 Affecting emacs package, versions [20.0,20.6]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-EMACS-2370943
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed18 Apr 2000
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 Apr 2000

CVE-2000-0270  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for emacs.

Overview

The make-temp-name Lisp function in Emacs 20 creates temporary files with predictable names, which allows attackers to conduct a symlink attack.

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