CVE-2000-0269: GNU Emacs

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Emacs 20 does not properly set permissions for a slave PTY device when starting a new subprocess, which allows local users to read or modify communications between Emacs and the subprocess.

Affected products

• GNU Emacs: version 20.0 only; version 20.1 only; version 20.2 only; version 20.3 only; version 20.4 only; version 20.5 only; …

Published 2000-04-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.