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ghsa-whwp-m746-hx6w

Vulnerability from github

Published

2023-03-09 06:30

Modified

2025-03-05 18:32

Severity ?

9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

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.

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   modified: "2025-03-05T18:32:02Z",
   published: "2023-03-09T06:30:21Z",
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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

▼	URL	Tags
	https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/03/08/2
	http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?h=emacs-29&id=3c1693d08b0a71d40a77e7b40c0ebc42dca2d2cc
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/03/09/1	mailing-list
	https://www.gabriel.urdhr.fr/2023/06/08/emacsclient-mail-shell-elisp-injections/

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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