Arbitrary Command Injection Affecting emacs-filesystem package, versions <1:27.2-6.el9_1.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-EMACSFILESYSTEM-5582811
  • published24 Mar 2023
  • disclosed19 Mar 2023

Introduced: 19 Mar 2023

CVE-2023-28617  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-77  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:9 emacs-filesystem to version 1:27.2-6.el9_1.1 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2023:2074.

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

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1