cve-2023-27986
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-03-09 00:00
Modified
2025-03-05 17:06
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
emacsclient-mail.desktop in Emacs 28.1 through 28.2 is vulnerable to Emacs Lisp code injections through a crafted mailto: URI with unescaped double-quote characters. It is fixed in 29.0.90.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?h=emacs-29&id=3c1693d08b0a71d40a77e7b40c0ebc42dca2d2ccIssue Tracking, Patch
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/03/09/1Mailing List, Patch
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.gabriel.urdhr.fr/2023/06/08/emacsclient-mail-shell-elisp-injections/
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/03/08/2Mailing List, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?h=emacs-29&id=3c1693d08b0a71d40a77e7b40c0ebc42dca2d2ccIssue Tracking, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/03/09/1Mailing List, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.gabriel.urdhr.fr/2023/06/08/emacsclient-mail-shell-elisp-injections/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/03/08/2Mailing List, Patch
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