High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Aug 25, 2026· Updated Aug 28, 2026

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.

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Affected products

Emacs/Trampllm-fuzzy
osv-coords2 versions
pkg:rpm/opensuse/emacs&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0 pkg:rpm/opensuse/emacs&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
< 30.2-160000.3.1+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: < 30.2-160000.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 31.1-1.1

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References

www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/08/26/15nvd
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-79992nvd
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvd

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