CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2000-0270

Published: Apr 18, 2000 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
3.6 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The make-temp-name Lisp function in Emacs 20 creates temporary files with predictable names, which allows attackers to conduct a symlink attack.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Emacs Gnu 20.1 20.1
Emacs Gnu 20.5 20.5
Emacs Gnu 20.4 20.4
Emacs Gnu 20.6 20.6
Emacs Gnu 20.2 20.2
Emacs Gnu 20.3 20.3
Emacs Gnu 20.0 20.0

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