Security Advisory

CVE-2017-1000383

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-10-31 20:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 22:00:41
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

GNU Emacs version 25.3.1 (and other versions most likely) ignores umask when creating a backup save file ("[ORIGINAL_FILENAME]~") resulting in files that may be world readable or otherwise accessible in ways not intended by the user running the emacs binary.