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CVE-2026-96442: GNU Emacs 0 to before 31.2; +5 more affected products
CVE-2026-96442 affects azl3 emacs 29.4-6 on Azure Linux 3.0. CVSS 3.1 base score 7.8 (HIGH, Vendor/CNA). EPSS 0.00166 (percentile 0.05494), scored 20-Oct-2026.
Affected technology
GNU Emacs · 0 to before 31.2
GNU Emacs
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 · Exact affected versions not specified by the source
Red Hat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 · Exact affected versions not specified by the source
Red Hat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 · Exact affected versions not specified by the source
Red Hat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 · Exact affected versions not specified by the source
Red Hat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 · Exact affected versions not specified by the source
Red Hat
Description’s affected range: versions prior to 31.2
Component: Not specified by the source
Attack conditions (Vendor/CNA, CVSS 3.1): Local · No privileges required · User interaction required
What an attacker can do
The source reports that an attacker could run attacker-chosen code. Vendor/CNA’s CVSS 3.1 assessment (base score 7.8/10) rates confidentiality, integrity and availability impact as high.
- CWE
- CWE-94
- Product
- azl3 emacs 29.4-6 on Azure Linux 3.0
- CCR priority
- 31.2 /100 (P4)
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.8 /10 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H · Vendor/CNA
- EPSS
- 0.00166 · percentile 0.05494 · 2026-10-20
- KEV
- no
Provenance
- FIRST EPSS daily exploit-probability · Source record · observed 2026-10-20 16:56:29.772392+00:00 UTC
- GitHub Advisory Database · Source record · observed 2026-10-21 04:17:24.410927+00:00 UTC
- Microsoft MSRC Security Update Guide (CVRF) · Source record · observed 2026-10-04 07:08:49.022374+00:00 UTC
- NVD CVE API 2.0 · Source record · observed 2026-10-20 01:44:01.123206+00:00 UTC
Stable permalink: https://cybercodered.org/item/cve-cve-2026-96442.html