Code Injection Affecting emacs package, versions [,29.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.32% (69th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-EMACS-7361771
  • published24 Jun 2024
  • disclosed23 Jun 2024
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Jun 2024

CVE-2024-39331  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade emacs to version 29.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Code Injection in the org-link-expand-abbrev() function in Org mode. An attacker can inject code enclosed in a %(...) abbrev that will be executed when the Org file is opened or previewed.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1