CVE-2022-45939
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-11-28 00:00
Modified
2024-08-03 14:24
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
0.04% (0.07843)
Summary
GNU Emacs through 28.2 allows attackers to execute commands via shell metacharacters in the name of a source-code file, because lib-src/etags.c uses the system C library function in its implementation of the ctags program. For example, a victim may use the "ctags *" command (suggested in the ctags documentation) in a situation where the current working directory has contents that depend on untrusted input.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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