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CVE-2022-48339

Published: 20 February 2023

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.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
xemacs21
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
kinetic Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)
bionic Needs triage

focal Needs triage

jammy Needs triage

trusty Ignored
(end of standard support)
upstream Ignored
(end of life)
xenial Needs triage

mantic Needs triage

lunar Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)
xemacs21-packages
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
kinetic Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)
bionic Needs triage

focal Needs triage

jammy Needs triage

trusty Ignored
(end of standard support)
upstream Needs triage

xenial Needs triage

mantic Needs triage

lunar Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)
emacs
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
kinetic Ignored
(end of life, was needed)
bionic Does not exist

focal Needed

jammy Needed

trusty Ignored
(end of standard support)
upstream
Released (1:28.2+1-11)
xenial Ignored
(end of standard support)
lunar Not vulnerable
(1:28.2+1-12ubuntu1)
mantic Not vulnerable
(1:28.2+1-12ubuntu1)
Patches:
upstream: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=1b4dc4691c1f87fc970fbe568b43869a15ad0d4c
emacs23
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Does not exist

focal Does not exist

jammy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

trusty Ignored
(end of standard support)
upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

emacs24
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Does not exist

focal Does not exist

jammy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

trusty Ignored
(end of standard support)
upstream Needs triage

xenial
Released (24.5+1-6ubuntu1.1+esm2)
Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
emacs25
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Needed

focal Does not exist

jammy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.8
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H