CVE-2023-27986 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

emacsclient-mail.desktop in Emacs 28.1 through 28.2 is vulnerable to Emacs Lisp code injections through a crafted mailto: URI with unescaped double-quote characters. It is fixed in 29.0.90.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Gnu	Emacs

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:gnu:emacs:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

No data.

References

Link	Providers
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?h=emacs-29&id=3c1693d08b0a71d40a77e7b40c0ebc42dca2d2cc
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/03/09/1
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-27986
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-27986
https://www.gabriel.urdhr.fr/2023/06/08/emacsclient-mail-shell-elisp-injections/
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/03/08/2

History

Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2023-03-09T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-03-05T17:06:50.769Z

Reserved: 2023-03-09T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2023-27986

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T12:23:30.840Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-03-09T06:15:33.187

Modified: 2025-03-05T18:15:35.673

Link: CVE-2023-27986

Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2023-03-08T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-27986 - Bugzilla

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