🛡️ CVE-2024-30202 — emacs

🟠 CVSS 7.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-94 NVD

7.8

CVSS Score

0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

In Emacs before 29.3, arbitrary Lisp code is evaluated as part of turning on Org mode. This affects Org Mode before 9.6.23.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-30202 is classified as CWE-94: Code Injection. Input is incorporated into code that the runtime evaluates, so an attacker can have their own code executed.

Affected software

CVE-2024-30202 is recorded against 2 packages.

emacs (fixed in 29.3)
org-mode (fixed in 9.6.23)

Timeline and source

Published on 25 March 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

www.openwall.com
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git.savannah.gnu.org
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www.openwall.com
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git.savannah.gnu.org
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CVE-2024-30202 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Debian Ubuntu

Details

Severity HIGH

CVSS Score 7.8

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

CWE CWE-94

Public Exploit ✅ No

Source NVD

Published 2024-03-25

Updated 2026-08-11

Modified 2026-06-17

Fix URL https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?h=emacs-29&id=befa9fcaae29a6c9a283ba371c3c5234c7f644eb

Affected Packages

Software	From version	Fixed in
emacs	—	29.3
org-mode	—	9.6.23

References

Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/25/2

Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/08/6

Patch https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?h=emacs-29&id=befa9fcaae29a6c9a283ba371c3c5234c7f644eb

Release Notes https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/etc/NEWS?h=emacs-29

Patch https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/?id=003ddacf1c8d869b1858181c29ea21b731a8d8d9

Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/25/2

Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/08/6

Patch https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?h=emacs-29&id=befa9fcaae29a6c9a283ba371c3c5234c7f644eb

Release Notes https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/etc/NEWS?h=emacs-29

Patch https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/?id=003ddacf1c8d869b1858181c29ea21b731a8d8d9

🔗 NVD 🔗 Mitre ✅ Fix / Advisory

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