MinorCritical vulnerability

CVE-2026-96269 (CVSS 7.5)

NVD · officialPublished Sep 22, 2026Risk 23/100EPSS 0.2%

GNU Emacs 28.1 through 31.1 allows arbitrary code execution upon opening a file, because an untrusted value of read-symbol-shorthands affects the intern and unintern functions. This affects the default configuration; no particular user settings are required to trigger it.

Technical details

CVSS

7.5

AV:LocalAC:LowPR:NoneUI:None

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