CVE-2012-3479 (GCVE-0-2012-3479)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-08-25 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 20:05
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
lisp/files.el in Emacs 23.2, 23.3, 23.4, and 24.1 automatically executes eval forms in local-variable sections when the enable-local-variables option is set to :safe, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary Emacs Lisp code via a crafted file.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
12 references
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|---|---|
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| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/13/2 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1586-1 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54969 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027375 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/13/1 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/50157 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA |
| http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2603 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN |
Date Public
2012-08-07 00:00
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"redhat_vex": {
"aggregate_severity": "Low",
"current_release_date": "2025-11-21T12:51:07+00:00",
"cve": "CVE-2012-3479",
"id": "CVE-2012-3479",
"initial_release_date": "2012-08-07T00:00:00+00:00",
"product_status:known_not_affected": "5",
"source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
"status": "final",
"title": "emacs: Evaluation of \u0027eval\u0027 forms in file-local variable sections, when \u0027enable-local-variables\u0027 set to \u0027:safe\u0027",
"url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2012/cve-2012-3479.json",
"version": "3"
},
"suse_vex": {
"aggregate_severity": "low",
"current_release_date": "2026-05-10T01:20:59Z",
"cve": "CVE-2012-3479",
"id": "CVE-2012-3479",
"initial_release_date": "2023-02-15T05:45:43Z",
"source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
"status": "interim",
"title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2012-3479",
"url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2012-3479.json",
"version": "4"
}
}
}
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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