Vulnerability Report

CVE-2024-39331

RCE

Title: Gnu Emacs RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2024-39331.

CWE Category CWE-94

Published Date Jun 23, 2024

Modified Date Apr 30, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 9.8 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.31%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2024-39331: In Emacs before 29.4, org-link-expand-abbrev in lisp/ol.el expands a %(...) link abbrev even when it specifies an unsafe function, such as shell-command-to-string. This affects Org Mode before 9.7.5.

Impacted Vendors

gnu 1

Reference Links

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/etc/NEWS?h=emacs-29 https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/?id=f4cc61636947b5c2f0afc67174dd369fe3277aa8 https://list.orgmode.org/87sex5gdqc.fsf%40localhost/ https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00023.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00024.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2024-06/msg00000.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40768225 https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/23/1 https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/23/2 https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/etc/NEWS?h=emacs-29 https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/?id=f4cc61636947b5c2f0afc67174dd369fe3277aa8 https://list.orgmode.org/87sex5gdqc.fsf%40localhost/ https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00023.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00024.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2024-06/msg00000.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40768225 https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/23/1 https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/23/2

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

Severity CRITICAL

9.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2024-39331 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 30, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

June 23, 2024 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK

Complexity LOW

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.