Emacs vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.
Emacs is made by Gnu. We track 35 published vulnerabilities in it, across 109 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run Emacs, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.
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None of Emacs's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.
Which Emacs flaws are most likely to be used?
Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.
- 4.3%CVE-2005-0100High
Format string vulnerability in the movemail utility in (1) Emacs 20.x, 21.3, and possibly other versions, and (2) XEmacs 21.4 and earlier, allows remote malicious POP3 servers to execute arbitrary code via crafted...
- 4.0%CVE-2017-14482High
GNU Emacs before 25.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via email with crafted "Content-Type: text/enriched" data containing an x-display XML element that specifies execution of shell commands,...
- 3.8%CVE-2012-3479Medium
lisp/files.el in Emacs 23.2, 23.3, 23.4, and 24.1 automatically executes eval forms in local-variable sections when the enable-local-variables option is set to :safe, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to...
- 3.7%CVE-2008-2142Medium
Emacs 21 and XEmacs automatically load and execute .flc (fast lock) files that are associated with other files that are edited within Emacs, which allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code.
- 3.0%CVE-2007-6109Critical
Stack-based buffer overflow in emacs allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly have unspecified other impact via a large precision value in an integer format string...
- 3.0%CVE-2003-1232Medium
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 attackers to execute arbitrary commands, as demonstrated using the...
- 2.9%CVE-2014-9483High
Emacs 24.4 allows remote attackers to bypass security restrictions.
- 2.3%CVE-2012-1103Medium
emacs/notmuch-mua.el in Notmuch before 0.11.1, when using the Emacs interface, allows user-assisted remote attackers to read arbitrary files via crafted MML tags, which are not properly quoted in an email reply cna...
- 2.3%CVE-2012-0035Critical
Untrusted search path vulnerability in EDE in CEDET before 1.0.1, as used in GNU Emacs before 23.4 and other products, allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted Lisp expression in a Project.ede file in the...
- 2.0%CVE-2007-2833High
Emacs 21 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain crafted images, as demonstrated via a GIF image in vm mode, related to image size calculation.
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Format string vulnerability in the movemail utility in (1) Emacs 20.x, 21.3, and possibly other versions, and (2) XEmacs 21.4 and earlier, allows remote malicious POP3 servers to execute arbitrary code via crafted packets.
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We track 35 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Emacs, across 109 versions.
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