CVE-2023-28617: GNU Org Mode

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• GNU Org Mode: up to and including 9.6.1

Published 2023-03-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.