Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-2491

High

Published: 17 May 2023

Published
17 May 2023
Modified
22 January 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0012 30.3th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-2491 is a high-severity Command Injection (CWE-77) vulnerability in Gnu Emacs. Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 30.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

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…

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in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2.

CWE(s)
CWE-77

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

gnu
emacs
26.1-9.el8, 27.2-8.el9
redhat
enterprise linux
8.0, 9.0
redhat
enterprise linux eus
8.8, 9.2
redhat
enterprise linux server aus
8.8, 9.2
redhat
enterprise linux server tus
8.8

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References