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CVE-2026-108976: CWE-184 Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs in GNU Emacs

0
High
VulnerabilityCVE-2026-108976cvecve-2026-108976cwe-184
Published: 10/11/2026 (10/11/2026, 20:11:10 UTC)
Source: CVE Database V5
Vendor/Project: GNU
Product: Emacs

Description

GNU Emacs before 31.2 (and TRAMP through 2.8.2) allows OS command injection via a filename because tramp-user-regexp has an incomplete list of disallowed inputs. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2026-79992.

CVSS v3.1

Score 7.8high

Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected software

GNU

Emacs

Affected versions
>=0 <31.2

Technical Details

Data Version
5.2
Assigner Short Name
mitre
Date Reserved
2026-10-11T20:11:10.046Z
Cvss Version
3.1
State
PUBLISHED

Threat ID: 6acbef3a2cdf04f656f7e4dd

Added to database: 10/11/2026, 20:19:06 UTC

Last updated: 10/11/2026, 20:19:06 UTC

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