Published: 09/03/2023 Updated: 09/06/2023

CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.8

VMScore: 0

emacsclient-mail.desktop in Emacs 28.1 up to and including 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

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Debian Bug report logs - #1032538 emacs: CVE-2023-27985 CVE-2023-27986 Package: src:emacs; Maintainer for src:emacs is Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalueorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2023 20:00:04 UTC Severity: grave Tags: security, upstream Found in version emacs/1:282+ ...

DescriptionThe MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as: emacsclient-maildesktop in Emacs 281 through 282 is vulnerable to shell command injections through a crafted mailto: URI This is related to lack of compliance with the Desktop Entry Specification ...

CWE-78 https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=60204 https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/03/08/2 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://www.gabriel.urdhr.fr/2023/06/08/emacsclient-mail-shell-elisp-injections/https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1032538 https://nvd.nist.gov https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2023-27985

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