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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
emacs
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Does not exist

focal Needed

jammy Needed

kinetic Needed

trusty Ignored
(out of standard support)
upstream
Released (1:28.2+1-11)
xenial Ignored
(out of standard support)
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
(out 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
(out of standard support)
upstream Needs triage

xenial
Released (24.5+1-6ubuntu1.1+esm2)
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

xemacs21
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Needs triage

focal Needs triage

jammy Needs triage

kinetic Needs triage

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

xemacs21-packages
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Needs triage

focal Needs triage

jammy Needs triage

kinetic Needs triage

trusty Ignored
(out of standard support)
upstream Needs triage

xenial Needs triage

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