CVE-2000-0269

lowpriority · track · 8OT risk · elevatedEPSS 0.004 · 30 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.36% (30th) EPSS

CVSS 2.1 · low

Is it mine?

8 products

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Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Emacs 20 does not properly set permissions for a slave PTY device when starting a new subprocess, which allows local users to read or modify communications between Emacs and the subprocess.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

2.1

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.02.1lowAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 2.9

v2.01.8lowAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-276USLLM-inferred

affected products (8)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
gnu emacs= 20.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:emacs:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu emacs= 20.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:emacs:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu emacs= 20.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:emacs:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu emacs= 20.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:emacs:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu emacs= 20.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:emacs:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu emacs= 20.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:emacs:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu emacs= 20.6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:emacs:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (2)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2000-04-18modified 2026-06-16

references (4)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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