Security Advisory

CVE-2024-53920

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2024-11-27 00:00:00
Last updated 2025-11-03 20:48:26
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

In elisp-mode.el in GNU Emacs before 30.1, a user who chooses to invoke elisp-completion-at-point (for code completion) on untrusted Emacs Lisp source code can trigger unsafe Lisp macro expansion that allows attackers to execute arbitrary code. (This unsafe expansion also occurs if a user chooses to enable on-the-fly diagnosis that byte compiles untrusted Emacs Lisp source code.)