Acceptance of Extraneous Untrusted Data With Trusted Data Affecting emacs package, versions <1:27.2-10.el9


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (13th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-EMACS-6840394
  • published14 May 2024
  • disclosed25 Mar 2024

Introduced: 25 Mar 2024

CVE-2024-30205  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-349  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:9 emacs to version 1:27.2-10.el9 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2024:9302.

NVD Description

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

In Emacs before 29.3, Org mode considers contents of remote files to be trusted. This affects Org Mode before 9.6.23.

CVSS Scores

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