Vulnerability in Gnu Emacs

CVE-2000-0270

The make-temp-name Lisp function in Emacs 20 creates temporary files with predictable names, which allows attackers to conduct a symlink attack.

EPSS: 0.003 (27.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Gnu Emacs — versions 20.0, 20.1, 20.2
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)