CVE-2014-3424 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting GNU Emacs 24.3 and earlier versions, as well as Mageia distributions. It allows a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files through a symlink attack on temporary files created in /tmp. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 3.3 (low severity) due to its local attack vector and medium attack complexity, with potential for partial integrity and availability impact. There is no known 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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