cve-2022-4515
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-12-20 00:00
Modified
2025-04-14 18:14
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
A flaw was found in Exuberant Ctags in the way it handles the "-o" option. This option specifies the tag filename. A crafted tag filename specified in the command line or in the configuration file results in arbitrary command execution because the externalSortTags() in sort.c calls the system(3) function in an unsafe way.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00040.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://sourceforge.net/p/ctags/code/HEAD/tree/tags/ctags-5.8/sort.c#l56Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00040.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sourceforge.net/p/ctags/code/HEAD/tree/tags/ctags-5.8/sort.c#l56Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a Exuberant Ctags Version: All versions are affected
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