Every CVE whose affected-product data names Gnu Emacs, ordered by CVSS severity, with EPSS exploit prediction and CISA KEV status.
CVEs (35)
CVE-2007-6109 — CVSS 10.0 (critical): Stack-based buffer overflow in emacs allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly have…
CVE-2022-48337 — CVSS 9.8 (critical): GNU Emacs through 28.2 allows attackers to execute commands via shell metacharacters in the name of a source-code file, because…
CVE-2024-39331 — CVSS 9.8 (critical): In Emacs before 29.4, org-link-expand-abbrev in lisp/ol.el expands a %(...) link abbrev even when it specifies an unsafe function, such as…
CVE-2012-0035 — CVSS 9.3 (critical): 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…
CVE-2017-14482 — CVSS 8.8 (high): GNU Emacs before 25.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via email with crafted "Content-Type: text/enriched" data…
CVE-2024-30202 — CVSS 7.8 (high): In Emacs before 29.3, arbitrary Lisp code is evaluated as part of turning on Org mode. This affects Org Mode before 9.6.23.
CVE-2007-2833 — CVSS 7.8 (high): Emacs 21 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain crafted images, as demonstrated via a GIF image in…
CVE-2024-53920 — CVSS 7.8 (high): In elisp-mode.el in GNU Emacs before 30.1, a user who chooses to invoke elisp-completion-at-point (for code completion) on untrusted Emacs…
CVE-2022-45939 — CVSS 7.8 (high): GNU Emacs through 28.2 allows attackers to execute commands via shell metacharacters in the name of a source-code file, because…
CVE-2022-48339 — CVSS 7.8 (high): An issue was discovered in GNU Emacs through 28.2. htmlfontify.el has a command injection vulnerability. In the hfy-istext-command…
CVE-2023-2491 — CVSS 7.8 (high): A flaw was found in the Emacs text editor. Processing a specially crafted org-mode code with the "org-babel-execute:latex" function in…
CVE-2023-27985 — CVSS 7.8 (high): emacsclient-mail.desktop in Emacs 28.1 through 28.2 is vulnerable to shell command injections through a crafted mailto: URI. This is…
CVE-2023-27986 — CVSS 7.8 (high): emacsclient-mail.desktop in Emacs 28.1 through 28.2 is vulnerable to Emacs Lisp code injections through a crafted mailto: URI with…
CVE-2005-0100 — CVSS 7.5 (high): 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…
CVE-2022-48338 — CVSS 7.3 (high): An issue was discovered in GNU Emacs through 28.2. In ruby-mode.el, the ruby-find-library-file function has a local command injection…
CVE-2024-30205 — CVSS 7.1 (high): In Emacs before 29.3, Org mode considers contents of remote files to be trusted. This affects Org Mode before 9.6.23.
CVE-2012-3479 — CVSS 6.8 (medium): lisp/files.el in Emacs 23.2, 23.3, 23.4, and 24.1 automatically executes eval forms in local-variable sections when the…
CVE-2008-2142 — CVSS 6.8 (medium): Emacs 21 and XEmacs automatically load and execute .flc (fast lock) files that are associated with other files that are edited within…
CVE-2007-5795 — CVSS 6.3 (medium): The hack-local-variables function in Emacs before 22.2, when enable-local-variables is set to :safe, does not properly search lists of…
CVE-2026-6861 — CVSS 6.1 (medium): A flaw was found in GNU Emacs. This vulnerability, a memory corruption issue, occurs when Emacs processes specially crafted SVG (Scalable…
CVE-2017-1000383 — CVSS 5.5 (medium): GNU Emacs version 25.3.1 (and other versions most likely) ignores umask when creating a backup save file ("[ORIGINAL_FILENAME]~") resulting…
CVE-2003-1232 — CVSS 5.1 (medium): 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…
CVE-2008-1694 — CVSS 4.6 (medium): vcdiff in Emacs 20.7 to 22.1.50, when used with SCCS, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary…
CVE-2000-0271 — CVSS 4.6 (medium): read-passwd and other Lisp functions in Emacs 20 do not properly clear the history of recently typed keys, which allows an attacker to read…
CVE-2010-0825 — CVSS 4.4 (medium): lib-src/movemail.c in movemail in emacs 22 and 23 allows local users to read, modify, or delete arbitrary mailbox files via a symlink…
CVE-2000-0270 — CVSS 3.6 (low): The make-temp-name Lisp function in Emacs 20 creates temporary files with predictable names, which allows attackers to conduct a symlink…
CVE-2014-3424 — CVSS 3.3 (low): lisp/net/tramp-sh.el in GNU Emacs 24.3 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a…
CVE-2014-3421 — CVSS 3.3 (low): lisp/gnus/gnus-fun.el in GNU Emacs 24.3 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the…
CVE-2014-3422 — CVSS 3.3 (low): lisp/emacs-lisp/find-gc.el in GNU Emacs 24.3 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a…
CVE-2014-3423 — CVSS 3.3 (low): lisp/net/browse-url.el in GNU Emacs 24.3 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a…
CVE-2000-0269 — CVSS 2.1 (low): Emacs 20 does not properly set permissions for a slave PTY device when starting a new subprocess, which allows local users to read or…
CVE-2001-1301 — CVSS 1.2 (low): rcs2log, as used in Emacs 20.4, xemacs 21.1.10 and other versions before 21.4, and possibly other packages, allows local users to modify…