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CVE-2022-48338

HIGH CVSS: 7.3 Published: 2023-02-20 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

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.

Affected Platforms

Gnu Emacs

Weakness Type

CWE-77, CWE-77

References