VDB
GHSA-8737-h7fg-9xgj
GHSA-8737-h7fg-9xgj
PUBLISHED
CVSS 9.800000190734863 CRITICAL
Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published November 27, 2024
In elisp-mode.el in GNU Emacs through 30.0.92, a user who chooses to invoke elisp-completion-at-point (for code completion) on untrusted Emacs Lisp source code can trigger unsafe Lisp macro expansion that allows attackers to execute arbitrary code. (This unsafe expansion also occurs if a user chooses to enable on-the-fly diagnosis that byte compiles untrusted Emacs Lisp source code.)
Risk scores
CVSS 3.1
9.800000190734863
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Timeline
- Nov 27, 2024 CVE Published
- May 1, 2026 Security Advisory
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References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-53920 advisory
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/ChangeLog.4 url
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/etc/NEWS?h=emacs-30.1 url
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/02/msg00033.html url
- https://yhetil.org/emacs/CAFXAjY5f4YfHAtZur1RAqH34UbYU56_t6t2Er0YEh1Sb7-W=hg%40mail.gmail.com url
- https://eshelyaron.com/posts/2024-11-27-emacs-aritrary-code-execution-and-how-to-avoid-it.html url
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tag/?h=emacs-30.0.92 url
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42256409 url
- https://yhetil.org/emacs/CAFXAjY5f4YfHAtZur1RAqH34UbYU56_t6t2Er0YEh1Sb7-W=hg@mail.gmail.com url