Arbitrary Command Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package emacs-common (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-EMACSCOMMON-12330293
- published1 Sept 2025
- disclosed19 Mar 2023
Introduced: 19 Mar 2023
CVE-2023-28617 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream emacs-common package and not the emacs-common package as distributed by RHEL.
org-babel-execute:latex in ob-latex.el in Org Mode through 9.6.1 for GNU Emacs allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a file name or directory name that contains shell metacharacters.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-28617
- https://list.orgmode.org/tencent_04CF842704737012CCBCD63CD654DD41CA0A@qq.com/T/#m6ef8e7d34b25fe17b4cbb655b161edce18c6655e
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/?id=8f8ec2ccf3f5ef8f38d68ec84a7e4739c45db485
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/?id=a8006ea580ed74f27f974d60b598143b04ad1741
- https://list.orgmode.org/tencent_04CF842704737012CCBCD63CD654DD41CA0A%40qq.com/T/#m6ef8e7d34b25fe17b4cbb655b161edce18c6655e
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/05/msg00008.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00019.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/02/msg00033.html