Vulnerability CVE-2017-14482
Published: 2017-09-14

Description:
GNU Emacs before 25.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via email with crafted "Content-Type: text/enriched" data containing an x-display XML element that specifies execution of shell commands, related to an unsafe text/enriched extension in lisp/textmodes/enriched.el, and unsafe Gnus support for enriched and richtext inline MIME objects in lisp/gnus/mm-view.el. In particular, an Emacs user can be instantly compromised by reading a crafted email message (or Usenet news article).

Type:

CWE-noinfo

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10
6.4/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
GNU -> Emacs 
Debian -> Debian linux 

 References:
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3975
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/09/11/1
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2771
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=28350
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?h=emacs-25&id=9ad0fcc54442a9a01d41be19880250783426db70
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-07
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3970
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/index.html#Releases
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