🛡️ CVE-2023-27986
🟠 CVSS 7.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-94 NVD
7.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

emacsclient-mail.desktop in Emacs 28.1 through 28.2 is vulnerable to Emacs Lisp code injections through a crafted mailto: URI with unescaped double-quote characters. It is fixed in 29.0.90.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-94
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-03-09
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2025-03-05

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
emacs 28.1 28.2

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