CVE-2024-53920 Affecting emacs-nox package, versions <1:27.2-14.el9_6.2


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on AlmaLinux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (32nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALMALINUX9-EMACSNOX-10117952
  • published13 May 2025
  • disclosed24 Jun 2025

Introduced: 13 May 2025

CVE-2024-53920  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade AlmaLinux:9 emacs-nox to version 1:27.2-14.el9_6.2 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALSA-2025:9448.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream emacs-nox package and not the emacs-nox package as distributed by AlmaLinux. See How to fix? for AlmaLinux:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

In elisp-mode.el in GNU Emacs before 30.1, a user who chooses to invoke elisp-completion-at-point (for code completion) on untrusted Emacs Lisp source code can trigger unsafe Lisp macro expansion that allows attackers to execute arbitrary code. (This unsafe expansion also occurs if a user chooses to enable on-the-fly diagnosis that byte compiles untrusted Emacs Lisp source code.)

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1