Security Advisory

CVE-2022-45939

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2022-11-28 00:00:00
Last updated 2025-04-28 18:12:24
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.