CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-96442
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Awaiting Analysis
- Published
- 2026-09-23
- Last modified
- 2026-10-27
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-94
Description
A code execution flaw was found in Emacs, affecting versions prior to 31.2. The Flymake mode using language backends other than Lisp would execute arbitrary code from the edited file while performing syntax checking. Viewing or editing untrusted files using Emacs could lead to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user running Emacs.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:84591 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:85245 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:90800 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-96442 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2537347 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/commit/135e6f63f08fee3d374fa1a5187bce941a2d3e3c github.com
- https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/commit/abc802ee2eb0b1663349ddf22a461f8e54a383fb github.com
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/09/14/1 www.openwall.com