CVE-2012-0035

critical

Published 2012-01-19 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

9.3

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
eric_m_ludlam	cedet	`{"endIncluding":"1.0"}`
eric_m_ludlam	cedet	`1.0`
gnu	emacs	`{"endIncluding":"23.3"}`
gnu	emacs	`20.0`
gnu	emacs	`20.1`
gnu	emacs	`20.2`
gnu	emacs	`20.3`
gnu	emacs	`20.4`
gnu	emacs	`20.5`
gnu	emacs	`20.6`
gnu	emacs	`20.7`
gnu	emacs	`21`
gnu	emacs	`21.1`
gnu	emacs	`21.2`
gnu	emacs	`21.2.1`
gnu	emacs	`21.3`
gnu	emacs	`21.3.1`
gnu	emacs	`21.4`
gnu	emacs	`22.1`
gnu	emacs	`22.2`
gnu	emacs	`22.3`
gnu	emacs	`23.1`
gnu	emacs	`23.2`
gnu	emacs	`23.4`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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