Eval Injection Affecting emacs-common package, versions <1:27.2-10.el9_4


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.32% (68th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-EMACSCOMMON-13521376
  • published10 Oct 2025
  • disclosed23 Jun 2024

Introduced: 23 Jun 2024

CVE-2024-39331  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-95  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:9 emacs-common to version 1:27.2-10.el9_4 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2024:6510.

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. See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

In Emacs before 29.4, org-link-expand-abbrev in lisp/ol.el expands a %(...) link abbrev even when it specifies an unsafe function, such as shell-command-to-string. This affects Org Mode before 9.7.5.

CVSS Base Scores

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