CVE-2022-48339
HIGHGNU Emacs < 28.2 - OS Command Injection in htmlfontify.el
Title source: llmDescription
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.
References (5)
Core 5
Core References
Patch
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=1b4dc4691c1f87fc970fbe568b43869a15ad0d4c
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5360
Mailing List mailing-list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/05/msg00008.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U6HDBUQNAH2WL4MHWCTUZLN7NGF7CHTK/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FLPQ4K6H2S5TY3L5UDN4K4B3L5RQJYQ6/
Scores
CVSS v3
7.8
EPSS
0.0118
EPSS Percentile
63.7%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
total
Details
CWE
CWE-116
CWE-1116
Status
published
Products (1)
gnu/emacs
< 28.2
Published
Feb 20, 2023
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026