CVE-2023-2491

high

Description

A flaw was found in the Emacs text editor. Processing a specially crafted org-mode code with the "org-babel-execute:latex" function in ob-latex.el can result in arbitrary command execution. This CVE exists because of a CVE-2023-28617 security regression for the emacs package in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2192873

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2491

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:3104

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2626

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-05-17

Updated: 2023-05-25

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High