A flaw was found in Emacs TRAMP. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability by processing maliciously crafted filenames. This occurs because TRAMP concatenates login arguments without proper s…
High CVSS 7.8
Summary
A flaw was found in Emacs TRAMP. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability by processing maliciously crafted filenames. This occurs because TRAMP concatenates login arguments without proper sanitization, which are then passed to a local shell. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.
In-depth triage
No in-depth report has been generated yet (DR-003 v2 AI pipeline is under construction).
Sources
- NVD DATABASE
Original Links
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-79992
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2523665
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/08/26/15
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/10/11/1
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:80506
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:80507
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/10/14/4
Timeline
- nvd_ingest NVD