{
  "id": 7345543,
  "title": "Emacs arbitrary code execution flaw",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/14/emacs-arbitrary-code-execution-flaw",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-14T15:20:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "LWN",
    "slug": "lwn",
    "url": "https://lwn.net/Articles/1094224/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Sean Whitton has announced that the original fix for an arbitrary code execution flaw in Emacs ( CVE-2024-53920 ) was incomplete. Bas Alberts discovered that viewing or editing untrusted files in modes other than Emacs's Lisp mode can also result in arbitrary code execution. This problem affects all Emacs versions affected by CVE-2024-53920. This means Emacs 24 and newer, and possibly also older…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}