CVE-2023-28617

HIGH 7.8CVE-2023-28617 · Published 19/03/2023 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2023-28617 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability affecting org mode (gnu).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.47%, higher than 40.6% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
org mode gnu	`≤ 9.6.1`	No fix yet

Description

org-babel-execute:latex in ob-latex.el in Org Mode through 9.6.1 for GNU Emacs allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a file name or directory name that contains shell metacharacters.

References

git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit · Mailing List
git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit · Mailing List
list.orgmode.org/tencent_04CF842704737012CCBCD63CD654DD41CA0A%40qq.com/T
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/05/msg00008.html
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00019.html
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/02/msg00033.html

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

org mode

gnu

≤ 9.6.1

No fix yet

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