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Arbitrary Command Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package emacs-filesystem  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-EMACSFILESYSTEM-12330296
  • published1 Sept 2025
  • disclosed19 Mar 2023
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Introduced: 19 Mar 2023

CVE-2023-28617  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-77  (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-filesystem package and not the emacs-filesystem 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.