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CVE-2022-48337
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2023-02-20T23:15:12.243 · Last modified 2026-06-17T05:15:11.137

Summary

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 etags program. For example, a victim may use the "etags -u *" command (suggested in the etags documentation) in a situation where the current working directory has contents that depend on untrusted input.

Affected products

gnu — emacs

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References

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