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CVE-2026-79992

HIGH CVSS: 7.8 Published: 2026-08-25 Modified: 2026-08-28

Description

A flaw was found in Emacs TRAMP. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability by processing maliciously crafted filenames. This occurs because TRAMP concatenates login arguments without proper sanitization, which are then passed to a local shell. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-78

References