CVE-2014-3424: GNU Emacs

Low severity, CVSS 3.3. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

lisp/net/tramp-sh.el in GNU Emacs 24.3 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/tramp.##### temporary file.

Affected products

  • GNU Emacs: up to and including 24.3; version 20.0 only; version 20.1 only; version 20.2 only; version 20.3 only; version 20.4 only; …
  • Mageia Project Mageia: version 3 only; version 4 only

Published 2014-05-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.