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 vulnerability. The ruby-find-library-file function is an interactive function, and bound to C-c C-f. Inside the function, the external command gem is called through shell-command-to-string, but the feature-name parameters are not escaped. Thus, malicious Ruby source files may cause commands to be executed.

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Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-5360-1 emacs security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-51038 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 vulnerability. The ruby-find-library-file function is an interactive function, and bound to C-c C-f. Inside the function, the external command gem is called through shell-command-to-string, but the feature-name parameters are not escaped. Thus, malicious Ruby source files may cause commands to be executed.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7027-1 Emacs vulnerabilities
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Tue, 18 Mar 2025 16:15:00 +0000

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2025-03-18T15:21:22.243Z

Reserved: 2023-02-20T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-48338

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T15:10:59.720Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-02-20T23:15:12.297

Modified: 2025-03-18T16:15:14.863

Link: CVE-2022-48338

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2023-02-21T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-48338 - Bugzilla

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