The version of emacs installed on the remote CBL Mariner 2.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2024-30202 advisory.

  - In Emacs before 29.3, arbitrary Lisp code is evaluated as part of turning on Org mode. This affects Org     Mode before 9.6.23. (CVE-2024-30202)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202407-08 (GNU Emacs, Org Mode: Multiple Vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GNU Emacs. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced     below for details.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2024-584 advisory.

    In Emacs before 29.3, arbitrary Lisp code is evaluated as part of turning on Org mode. This affects Org     Mode before 9.6.23. (CVE-2024-30202)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of emacs installed on the remote Azure Linux 3.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2024-30202 advisory.

  - In Emacs before 29.3, arbitrary Lisp code is evaluated as part of turning on Org mode. This affects Org     Mode before 9.6.23. (CVE-2024-30202)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of FreeBSD installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the f661184a-eb90-11ee-92fc-1c697a616631 advisory.

  - In Emacs before 29.3, arbitrary Lisp code is evaluated as part of turning on Org mode. This affects Org     Mode before 9.6.23. (CVE-2024-30202)

  - In Emacs before 29.3, Gnus treats inline MIME contents as trusted. (CVE-2024-30203)

  - In Emacs before 29.3, LaTeX preview is enabled by default for e-mail attachments. (CVE-2024-30204)

  - In Emacs before 29.3, Org mode considers contents of remote files to be trusted. This affects Org Mode     before 9.6.23. (CVE-2024-30205)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7375-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Org Mode did not correctly handle filenames containing shell metacharacters. An     attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue     only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-28617)

    It was discovered that Org Mode could run untrusted code left in its buffer. An attacker could possibly     use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu     22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-30202)

    It was discovered that Org Mode did not correctly handle the contents of remote files. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected     Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-30205)

    It was discovered that Org Mode could be made to run arbitrary Elisp code. An attacker could possibly use     this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2024-39331)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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

  - In Emacs before 29.3, arbitrary Lisp code is evaluated as part of turning on Org mode. This affects Org     Mode before 9.6.23. (CVE-2024-30202)

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

An update of the emacs package has been released.

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 7.02, has emacs packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities:

  - GNU Emacs through 28.2 allows attackers to execute commands via shell metacharacters in the name of a     source-code file, because lib-src/etags.c uses the system C library function in its implementation of the     etags program. For example, a victim may use the etags -u * command (suggested in the etags     documentation) in a situation where the current working directory has contents that depend on untrusted     input. (CVE-2022-48337)

  - GNU Emacs through 28.2 allows attackers to execute commands via shell metacharacters in the name of a     source-code file, because lib-src/etags.c uses the system C library function in its implementation of the     ctags program. For example, a victim may use the ctags * command (suggested in the ctags documentation)     in a situation where the current working directory has contents that depend on untrusted input.
    (CVE-2022-45939)

  - An issue was discovered in GNU Emacs through 28.2. In ruby-mode.el, the ruby-find-library-file function     has a local command injection vulnerability. The ruby-find-library-file function is an interactive     function, and bound to C-c C-f. Inside the function, the external command gem is called through shell-     command-to-string, but the feature-name parameters are not escaped. Thus, malicious Ruby source files may     cause commands to be executed. (CVE-2022-48338)

  - An issue was discovered in GNU Emacs through 28.2. htmlfontify.el has a command injection vulnerability.
    In the hfy-istext-command function, the parameter file and parameter srcdir come from external input, and     parameters are not escaped. If a file name or directory name contains shell metacharacters, code may be     executed. (CVE-2022-48339)

  - 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 (CVE-2023-27985)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
201602	CBL Mariner 2.0 Security Update: emacs (CVE-2024-30202)	Nessus	MarinerOS Local Security Checks	7/3/2024	2/10/2025	high
201186	GLSA-202407-08 : GNU Emacs, Org Mode: Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	7/1/2024	7/1/2024	critical
193439	Amazon Linux 2023 : emacs, emacs-common, emacs-devel (ALAS2023-2024-584)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	4/17/2024	12/11/2024	high
215878	Azure Linux 3.0 Security Update: emacs (CVE-2024-30202)	Nessus	Azure Linux Local Security Checks	2/10/2025	9/15/2025	high
192595	FreeBSD : emacs -- multiple vulnerabilities (f661184a-eb90-11ee-92fc-1c697a616631)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	3/27/2024	11/15/2024	high
233403	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS : Org Mode vulnerabilities (USN-7375-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	3/27/2025	9/3/2025	high
227663	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-30202	Nessus	Misc.	3/5/2025	10/28/2025	high
235145	Photon OS 5.0: Emacs PHSA-2025-5.0-0512	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	5/5/2025	5/5/2025	high
242832	NewStart CGSL MAIN 7.02 : emacs Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2025-0115)	Nessus	NewStart CGSL Local Security Checks	7/25/2025	7/25/2025	critical

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