Published: 31/12/2003 Updated: 08/03/2011

CVSS v2 Base Score: 5.1 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 4.9

VMScore: 515

Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Emacs 21.2.1 does not prompt or warn the user before executing Lisp code in the local variables section of a text file, which allows user-assisted malicious users to execute arbitrary commands, as demonstrated using the mode-name variable.

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source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/15375/info Emacs is susceptible to an arbitrary command execution vulnerability with local variables This issue is due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied input By modifying a text file to include local variables containing containing shell commands in an 'eval' statement, attackers may cause a ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2003-May/005089.html http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.emacs.bug/browse_frm/thread/9424ec1b2fdae321/c691a2da8904db0f?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dguninski%2Bemacs%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26selm%3Dmailman.763.1041357806.19936.bug-gnu-emacs%2540gnu.org%26rnum%3D1#c691a2da8904db0f http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=286183 http://secunia.com/advisories/17496 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:208 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15375 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/26492/

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