Emacs 28.1-28.2: Vulnerability in emacsclient-mail.desktop Allows Emacs Lisp Code Injection

CVE-2023-27986 · HIGH Severity

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

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.

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