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FKIE_CVE-2024-39331

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-06-23 22:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 07:41
Severity
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
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
cve@mitre.orghttps://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/etc/NEWS?h=emacs-29Release Notes
cve@mitre.orghttps://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/?id=f4cc61636947b5c2f0afc67174dd369fe3277aa8Mailing List, Patch
cve@mitre.orghttps://list.orgmode.org/87sex5gdqc.fsf%40localhost/Mailing List
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00023.htmlMailing List
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00024.htmlMailing List
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2024-06/msg00000.htmlMailing List
cve@mitre.orghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40768225Mailing List
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/23/1Mailing List
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/23/2Mailing List
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/etc/NEWS?h=emacs-29Release Notes
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/?id=f4cc61636947b5c2f0afc67174dd369fe3277aa8Mailing List, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://list.orgmode.org/87sex5gdqc.fsf%40localhost/Mailing List
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00023.htmlMailing List
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00024.htmlMailing List
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2024-06/msg00000.htmlMailing List
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40768225Mailing List
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/23/1Mailing List
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/23/2Mailing List
Impacted products
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