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CVE-2023-27985

Date: March 9, 2023

emacsclient-mail.desktop in Emacs 28.1 through 28.2 is vulnerable to shell command injections through a crafted mailto: URI. This is related to lack of compliance with the Desktop Entry Specification. It is fixed in 29.0.90

Language: EMACS_LISP

Severity Score

Related Resources (8)

https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=60204
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/03/08/2
https://www.gabriel.urdhr.fr/2023/06/08/emacsclient-mail-shell-elisp-injections/
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?h=emacs-29&id=d32091199ae5de590a83f1542a01d75fba000467
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/03/09/1
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-27985
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-27985
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2023-27985

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

OS Command Injections

CWE-78

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): REQUIRED
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): HIGH

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