EudorIACyber Intelligence
Operational monitoring Newsletter IT EN
← Back to intelligence
Vulnerability

CVE-2026-96442: A code execution flaw was found in Emacs, affecting versions prior to 31.2. The Flymake mode using language backends other than Lisp would execute arbitrary code from the edited file while performing syntax checking. Vie

Official source
EudorIA operational summary

What it means

Priority 70/100

NIST National Vulnerability Database ha pubblicato CVE-2026-96442. La rilevanza va confermata rispetto alle tecnologie effettivamente in uso.

Why it matters

Il segnale diventa operativo solo se prodotto, versione o servizio sono presenti nel perimetro.

AudienceITSOCCISO
Information centre

Translation in progress

NIST National Vulnerability Database

The official content is available in the original language. The Italian version will be published once automated checks are complete.

Text acquired from the source

A code execution flaw was found in Emacs, affecting versions prior to 31.2. The Flymake mode using language backends other than Lisp would execute arbitrary code from the edited file while performing syntax checking. Viewing or editing untrusted files using Emacs could lead to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user running Emacs.

Source
NIST National Vulnerability Database
Publishing entity
NIST National Vulnerability Database
Entity type
National authority
Area
North America · US
Original language
en · translation in preparation
Publication
23/09/2026 13:17
CVE
CVE-2026-96442
Classification
High
Stated country
US
Technical scope

Affected products and versions

Not published
No structured range published.

The official sources queried do not yet expose a list of affected versions. No automatic inference is made.

Sources for the versionsNIST National Vulnerability Database
Open the original source