Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting emacs package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (36th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-EMACS-3150941
  • published30 Nov 2022
  • disclosed27 Nov 2022
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Nov 2022

CVE-2022-45939  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution in the just_read_file() function in etags.c. Insertion of shell metacharacters into the filename of a source code file allows attackers to use ctags commands to execute code.

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