SB2025030633 - SUSE update for emacs
Published: March 6, 2025
Security Bulletin ID
SB2025030633
CSH Severity
High
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Code execution
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Exposed dangerous method or function (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-53920)
CWE-ID: CWE-749 - Exposed Dangerous Method or Function
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.
The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation in elisp-mode.el. A remote attacker can trick the victim into invoking elisp-completion-at-point (for code completion) on untrusted Emacs Lisp source code, trigger unsafe Lisp macro expansion and execute arbitrary code on the system.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.