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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-53920

high Nessus Plugin ID 231140

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Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux - emacs: arbitrary code execution via Lisp macro expansion Ubuntu Linux - In elisp-mode.el in GNU Emacs before 30.1, a user who chooses to invoke elisp-completion-at-point (for code completion) on untrusted Emacs Lisp source code can trigger unsafe Lisp macro expansion that allows attackers to execute arbitrary code. (This unsafe expansion also occurs if a user chooses to enable on- the-fly diagnosis that byte compiles untrusted Emacs Lisp source code.) (CVE-2024-53920)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2024-53920

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-53920

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 231140

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2024_53920.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/6/2025

Updated: 10/30/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.6

Percentile: 98.19

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-53920

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.4

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:U/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:26.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:26.10, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs24, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs25, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xemacs21-packages, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xemacs21, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:emacs-common, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:emacs-el, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:emacs-filesystem, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:emacs-nox, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:emacs-terminal, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:emacs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:emacs-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:emacs-el, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:emacs-filesystem, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:emacs-nox, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:emacs-terminal, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:emacs

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, global_settings/vendor_unpatched, Host/OS/identifier

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/27/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-53920