CVE-2000-0270: GNU Emacs

Low severity, CVSS 3.6. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The make-temp-name Lisp function in Emacs 20 creates temporary files with predictable names, which allows attackers to conduct a symlink attack.

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.