VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2023-2491

CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability0.46%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2023-05-17
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • secalert@redhat.com: CWE-77
  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-77

Primary references