CVE-2024-53920

CRITICALNVD 7.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“▲” beside the score: it is higher than NVD's CVSS score.

Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2024-11-27. NVD baseline CVSS 7.8; sources differ by 2.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Elevated

Also known asEUVD-2024-52189 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-8737-h7fg-9xgj (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • CISA's Vulnrichment rates exploitation as PoC; EchelonGraph holds no exploit-code reference for it
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.6%CVSS: 7.8Exploit: No code on recordExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

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.)

CVSS v3
7.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
75
EG Risk 75/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation40% × 40%
EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.
Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
0.6%
EPSS %ILE
49th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.6% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-12). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track* at medium mission impactTrack at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

November 27, 2024

Last Modified

September 21, 2026

Advisory Details (5)

Auto-updated Aug 20, 2026
Patch available.
Web page

Emacs arbitrary code execution and how to avoid it | Hacker News

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42256409
Web page

Avoiding arbitrary code execution with macroexpansion - Wilfred Hughes

https://yhetil.org/emacs/CAFXAjY5f4YfHAtZur1RAqH34UbYU56_t6t2Er0YEh1Sb7-W=hg@mail.gmail.com/
Web page

emacs.git - Emacs source repository

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tag/?h=emacs-30.0.92
Web page

ChangeLog.4 - emacs.git - Emacs source repository

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/ChangeLog.4

Patch Availability(8)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntuemacs-nox (1:27.1+1-3ubuntu5.2+esm1) @ jammy2026-11-12ubuntu
redhatemacs-1:29.4-13.el10_22026-06-03redhat
redhatdiscovery/discovery-server-rhel9:2.0.0-17525929132025-07-21redhat
redhatemacs-1:26.1-15.el8_102025-07-15redhat
redhatemacs-1:27.2-14.el9_6.22025-06-24redhat
redhatemacs-1:27.2-10.el9_4.22025-05-12redhat
redhatemacs-1:27.2-11.el9_5.22025-05-12redhat
redhatemacs-1:27.2-8.el9_2.32025-05-12redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(4 across 4 ecosystems)
Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
emacs1:27.1+1-3.1 ... 1:27.1+1-3.1+deb11u5 (6 versions)
  • every version up to 1:27.1+1-3.1+deb11u6: fixed in 1:27.1+1-3.1+deb11u6
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Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
emacs1:28.2+1-15, 1:28.2+1-15+deb12u1, 1:28.2+1-15+deb12u2, 1:28.2+1-15+deb12u3
  • every version up to 1:28.2+1-15+deb12u4: fixed in 1:28.2+1-15+deb12u4
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
emacs—
  • every version up to 1:30.1+1-1: fixed in 1:30.1+1-1
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Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
emacs—
  • every version up to 1:30.1+1-1: fixed in 1:30.1+1-1
—

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Additional Vendor Advisories

(7)

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 21× in last 7d / 91× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed its CVE.org record (CNA or CISA ADP). An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). "EchelonGraph re-scored" is our own recompute of this CVE's score, not an update from a source, and is not counted in the refreshes above. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 335 rows on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 235 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-13 16:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  2. 2026-11-13 01:00 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  3. 2026-11-13 01:00 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-11-13 01:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8737-h7fg-9xgj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  5. 2026-11-12 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  6. 2026-11-12 01:54 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  7. 2026-11-12 01:54 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-11-12 01:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8737-h7fg-9xgj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  9. 2026-11-11 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  10. 2026-11-11 02:48 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  11. 2026-11-11 02:48 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-11-11 02:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8737-h7fg-9xgj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  13. 2026-11-10 16:39 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  14. 2026-11-10 03:25 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  15. 2026-11-10 03:25 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-11-10 03:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8737-h7fg-9xgj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  17. 2026-11-09 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  18. 2026-11-09 04:19 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  19. 2026-11-09 04:19 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-11-09 04:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8737-h7fg-9xgj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  21. 2026-11-08 16:36 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  22. 2026-11-08 05:05 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  23. 2026-11-08 05:05 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-11-08 05:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8737-h7fg-9xgj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  25. 2026-11-07 16:36 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
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  1. 2026-11-07 05:58 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  2. 2026-11-07 05:58 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-11-07 05:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8737-h7fg-9xgj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  4. 2026-11-06 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  5. 2026-11-06 06:53 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  6. 2026-11-06 06:53 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-11-06 06:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8737-h7fg-9xgj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  8. 2026-11-05 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  9. 2026-11-05 07:46 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  10. 2026-11-05 07:46 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-11-05 07:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8737-h7fg-9xgj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  12. 2026-11-05 04:55 UTCOSV refresh
  13. 2026-11-04 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  14. 2026-11-04 08:40 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  15. 2026-11-04 08:40 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-11-04 08:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8737-h7fg-9xgj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  17. 2026-11-03 16:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  18. 2026-11-03 09:34 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  19. 2026-11-03 09:34 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-11-03 09:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8737-h7fg-9xgj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  21. 2026-11-02 16:41 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  22. 2026-11-02 10:27 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  23. 2026-11-02 10:27 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-11-02 10:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8737-h7fg-9xgj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  25. 2026-11-01 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  26. 2026-11-01 11:21 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  27. 2026-11-01 11:21 UTCVendor advisory
  28. 2026-11-01 11:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8737-h7fg-9xgj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  29. 2026-10-31 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  30. 2026-10-31 12:16 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  31. 2026-10-31 12:16 UTCVendor advisory
  32. 2026-10-31 12:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8737-h7fg-9xgj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  33. 2026-10-30 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  34. 2026-10-30 13:10 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  35. 2026-10-30 13:10 UTCVendor advisory
  36. 2026-10-30 13:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8737-h7fg-9xgj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  37. 2026-10-29 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  38. 2026-10-29 14:03 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  39. 2026-10-29 14:03 UTCVendor advisory
  40. 2026-10-29 14:03 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8737-h7fg-9xgj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  41. 2026-10-28 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  42. 2026-10-28 14:57 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  43. 2026-10-28 14:57 UTCVendor advisory
  44. 2026-10-28 14:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8737-h7fg-9xgj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  45. 2026-10-27 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  46. 2026-10-27 15:31 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  47. 2026-10-27 15:31 UTCVendor advisory
  48. 2026-10-27 15:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8737-h7fg-9xgj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  49. 2026-10-26 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  50. 2026-10-26 16:01 UTCVendor advisory
  51. 2026-10-26 16:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8737-h7fg-9xgj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  52. 2026-10-25 16:52 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  53. 2026-10-25 16:52 UTCVendor advisory
  54. 2026-10-25 16:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8737-h7fg-9xgj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  55. 2026-10-25 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  56. 2026-10-24 17:46 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  57. 2026-10-24 17:46 UTCVendor advisory
  58. 2026-10-24 17:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8737-h7fg-9xgj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  59. 2026-10-24 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  60. 2026-10-23 18:41 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  61. 2026-10-23 18:41 UTCVendor advisory
  62. 2026-10-23 18:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8737-h7fg-9xgj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  63. 2026-10-23 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  64. 2026-10-22 19:28 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  65. 2026-10-22 19:28 UTCVendor advisory
  66. 2026-10-22 19:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8737-h7fg-9xgj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  67. 2026-10-22 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  68. 2026-10-21 20:22 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  69. 2026-10-21 20:22 UTCVendor advisory
  70. 2026-10-21 20:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8737-h7fg-9xgj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  71. 2026-10-21 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
  72. 2026-10-20 21:16 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  73. 2026-10-20 21:16 UTCVendor advisory
  74. 2026-10-20 21:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-8737-h7fg-9xgj · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  75. 2026-10-20 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2024-53920?
CVE-2024-53920 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on November 27, 2024. 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…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2024-53920 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2024-53920 was published on November 27, 2024. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of September 21, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2024-53920 actively exploited?
CVE-2024-53920 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (49th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2024-53920?
CVE-2024-53920 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8 (NVD). EchelonGraph synthesises NVD + FIRST EPSS + GHSA into a combined EG score of 9.8 (CRITICAL).
How do I remediate CVE-2024-53920?
A fix for CVE-2024-53920 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2024-53920 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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