Arbitrary Command Injection Affecting emacs-filesystem package, versions <1:27.2-8.el9_2.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS9-EMACSFILESYSTEM-5491153
  • published3 May 2023
  • disclosed9 May 2023

Introduced: 3 May 2023

CVE-2023-2491  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-77  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Centos:9 emacs-filesystem to version 1:27.2-8.el9_2.1 or higher.

NVD Description

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

A flaw was found in the Emacs text editor. Processing a specially crafted org-mode code with the "org-babel-execute:latex" function in ob-latex.el can result in arbitrary command execution. This CVE exists because of a CVE-2023-28617 security regression for the emacs package in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1