CVE-2024-39331

critical

Description

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.

References

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/23/2

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/23/1

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40768225

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2024-06/msg00000.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00024.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00023.html

https://list.orgmode.org/87sex5gdqc.fsf%40localhost/

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/?id=f4cc61636947b5c2f0afc67174dd369fe3277aa8

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/etc/NEWS?h=emacs-29

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-06-23

Updated: 2024-07-03

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H