CVE-2023-24917.8HighCWE-77

CVE-2023-2491: Gnu emacs vulnerability

Gnu · emacs

Affected: Gnu emacs · Exploitation: unlikely (under 1%)

Not in CyberSIXT coverage yet: no article names this CVE. This page shows the public record.

0.5%probability of exploitation in the next 30 days

40th percentile

050100

Higher than 40% of scored CVEs

7.8HighCVSS 3.1

LowMediumHighCrit.

DescriptionCVE.org

A flaw was found in the Emacs text editor. Processing a specially crafted org-mode code with the "org-babel-execute:latex" function in ob-latex.el can result in arbitrary command execution. This CVE exists because of a CVE-2023-28617 security regression for the emacs package in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2.

Affected products1

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emacsAffects emacs v26.1-9.el8 and emacs v27.2-8.el9, Fixed in e…

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Exploitation: Unlikely (under 1%). EPSS under 1%, or no score yet.
CISA KEV: Not listed
Public check: No public nuclei template
Weakness: Command Injection · Command and Code Injection
Vendor: Gnu
Published: May 2023
Band: Unlikely (under 1%), May 2023

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