CVE-2001-1301 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in rcs2log, affecting Emacs 20.4, XEmacs 21.1.10, and potentially other versions and packages. An attacker can exploit this by using a symlink attack on a temporary file, allowing them to modify files owned by other users. This vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 1.2 (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N), indicating local access, high attack complexity, no authentication required, and a partial impact on integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, no known exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, and it is not on the CISA KEV catalog, though it has garnered some community discussion on GitHub.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
20.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:emacs:20.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
21.1.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:xemacs:xemacs:21.1.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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