What is GHSA-42vv-cfp2-9qc8?

GHSA-42vv-cfp2-9qc8 is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with High severity. A flaw was found in Emacs TRAMP. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability by processing...

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-42vv-cfp2-9qc8 cover?

GHSA-42vv-cfp2-9qc8 covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2026-79992. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-42vv-cfp2-9qc8?

GHSA-42vv-cfp2-9qc8 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

GHSA-42vv-cfp2-9qc8HighCVSS 7.8

A flaw was found in Emacs TRAMP. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability by processing...

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

August 25, 2026

Last Modified

August 26, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2026-79992 →

📋 Description

A flaw was found in Emacs TRAMP. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability by processing maliciously crafted filenames. This occurs because TRAMP concatenates login arguments without proper sanitization, which are then passed to a local shell. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.

🔗 References (5)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-79992
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-79992
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2523665
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/08/26/15
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-42vv-cfp2-9qc8