CVE-2022-4515

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: Dec 20, 2022
Updated: Apr 14, 2025
Reserved: Dec 15, 2022

Description

A flaw was found in Exuberant Ctags in the way it handles the "-o" option. This option specifies the tag filename. A crafted tag filename specified in the command line or in the configuration file results in arbitrary command execution because the externalSortTags() in sort.c calls the system(3) function in an unsafe way.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-78

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Exuberant Ctagsn/a	All versions are affectedAffected

References

https://sourceforge.net/p/ctags/code/HEAD/tree/tags/ctags-5.8/sort.c#l56
[debian-lts-announce] 20221231 [SECURITY] [DLA 3254-1] exuberant-ctags security updatemailing-list

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