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Red Hat: CVE-2024-39331: emacs: org-link-expand-abbrev: Do not evaluate arbitrary unsafe Elisp code (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jun 23, 2024
Added
Sep 10, 2024
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

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.

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