CVE-2014-3421 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in GNU Emacs 24.3 and earlier, specifically within the lisp/gnus/gnus-fun.el component. An attacker can exploit this by using a symlink attack on the /tmp/gnus.face.ppm temporary file, leading to arbitrary file overwrites. This vulnerability has a low severity score (CVSS 3.3) due to its local attack vector and medium attack complexity, with potential impacts limited to integrity and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:mageia_project:mageia:3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:mageia_project:mageia:4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 24.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:emacs:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
20.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:emacs:20.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
20.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnu:emacs:20.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
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