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GHSA-JWXQ-F9VM-725G

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2023-02-21 00:30 – Updated: 2025-03-18 18:30

Details

An issue was discovered in GNU Emacs through 28.2. htmlfontify.el has a command injection vulnerability. In the hfy-istext-command function, the parameter file and parameter srcdir come from external input, and parameters are not escaped. If a file name or directory name contains shell metacharacters, code may be executed.

Severity ?

9.8 (Critical)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2022-48339 (GCVE-0-2022-48339)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-02-20 00:00 – Updated: 2025-03-18 15:19

Summary

Severity ?

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

Assigner

mitre

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commi…
	https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5360	vendor-advisory
	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023…	mailing-list
	https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisory
	https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisory

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