Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting emacs package, versions <28.2-r3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.48% (38th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE317-EMACS-3358039
  • published9 Mar 2023
  • disclosed9 Mar 2023

Introduced: 9 Mar 2023

CVE-2023-27986  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.17 emacs to version 28.2-r3 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream emacs package and not the emacs package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.17 relevant fixed versions and status.

emacsclient-mail.desktop in Emacs 28.1 through 28.2 is vulnerable to Emacs Lisp code injections through a crafted mailto: URI with unescaped double-quote characters. It is fixed in 29.0.90.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1