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CVE-2022-48338
HIGH · CVSS 7.3
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2023-02-20T23:15:12.297 · Last modified 2026-06-17T05:15:11.333

Summary

An issue was discovered in GNU Emacs through 28.2. In ruby-mode.el, the ruby-find-library-file function has a local command injection vulnerability. The ruby-find-library-file function is an interactive function, and bound to C-c C-f. Inside the function, the external command gem is called through shell-command-to-string, but the feature-name parameters are not escaped. Thus, malicious Ruby source files may cause commands to be executed.

Affected products

gnu — emacs

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