CVE-2012-0035

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-01-19 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in EDE in CEDET before 1.0.1, as used in GNU Emacs before 23.4 and other products, allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted Lisp expression in a Project.ede file in the directory, or a parent directory, of an opened file.

Affected products

Eric M Ludlam Cedet: through 1.0; 1.0-beta1, 1.0-beta2, 1.0-beta3, 1.0-pre1, 1.0-pre2, 1.0-pre3 (+3)
GNU Emacs: through 23.3; 20.0, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 20.4, 20.5 (+15)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-January/072285.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-January/072288.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2012-01/msg00387.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/10/2
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/10/4
http://secunia.com/advisories/47311
http://secunia.com/advisories/47515
http://secunia.com/advisories/50801
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=28649762
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=28657612
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:076
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1586-1

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