CVE-2026-79992

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.

References

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-65616

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2523665

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-79992

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/10/11/1

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/08/26/15

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

EPSS