CVE-2023-28617

Published: 19 March 2023

org-babel-execute:latex in ob-latex.el in Org Mode through 9.6.1 for GNU Emacs allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a file name or directory name that contains shell metacharacters.

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
org-mode Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	kinetic	Ignored (end of life, was needs-triage)
	bionic	Needs triage
	focal	Needs triage
	jammy	Needs triage
	trusty	Ignored (end of standard support)
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Needs triage
	lunar	Needs triage
	mantic	Needs triage
xemacs21 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	kinetic	Ignored (end of life, was needs-triage)
	trusty	Ignored (end of standard support)
	xenial	Needs triage
	bionic	Needs triage
	focal	Needs triage
	jammy	Needs triage
	upstream	Ignored (end of life)
	lunar	Needs triage
	mantic	Needs triage
xemacs21-packages Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	kinetic	Ignored (end of life, was needs-triage)
	bionic	Needs triage
	focal	Needs triage
	jammy	Needs triage
	trusty	Ignored (end of standard support)
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Needs triage
	lunar	Needs triage
	mantic	Needs triage
emacs Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	kinetic	Ignored (end of life, was needs-triage)
	bionic	Does not exist
	focal	Needs triage
	jammy	Needs triage
	trusty	Ignored (end of standard support)
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Ignored (end of standard support)
	lunar	Needs triage
	mantic	Needs triage
emacs23 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Does not exist
	focal	Does not exist
	jammy	Does not exist
	kinetic	Does not exist
	trusty	Ignored (end of standard support)
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist
emacs24 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Does not exist
	focal	Does not exist
	jammy	Does not exist
	kinetic	Does not exist
	trusty	Ignored (end of standard support)
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Released (24.5+1-6ubuntu1.1+esm3) Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
emacs25 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Needs triage
	focal	Does not exist
	jammy	Does not exist
	kinetic	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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