Vulnerability CVE-2024-39331
Published: 2024-06-23   Modified: 2024-06-24

Description:
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.

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