CVE-2024-30204

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Published: 2024-03-25 Last update: 2025-05-01 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Analyzed，CVE State: published
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CVE-2024-30204 is rated Low Risk (12/100): CVSS Low severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.02%). Low composite risk—no urgent action required; patch on your normal maintenance cycle and revisit priority if CVSS or EPSS increases.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2024-30204

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-11-21 0.09% 0.02% -0.08%
2 2025-11-18 0.02% 0.09% +0.08%
3 2025-05-03 — 0.02% —

Full EPSS history (5 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2024-30204

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
2.8 3.1 LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:L)
They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:L)
A normal user session is enough; they don’t have to be admin.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:L)
Might cause slowdowns, glitches, or partial disruption—not a full brick.
 1.3 1.4 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2024-30204

OS Trackers for CVE-2024-30204

vendor priority summary link
alpine — CVE-2024-30204: 1 source package rows (emacs); 10 state rows across 2 repos (3.22-community, edge-community); fixed 0, open 10. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2024-30204
debian not yet assigned CVE-2024-30204 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 2 source packages (emacs, org-mode), 10 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 9, open 1. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-30204
gentoo high CVE-2024-30204: 1 GLSA(s) (202407-08), 2 atom(s) (app-editors/emacs, app-emacs/org-mode); latest impact high. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2024-30204
redhat medium — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-30204
suse medium CVE-2024-30204 severity moderate: SUSE including 29 source package names (emacs, emacs-24.3-25.17.1, …), 127 product×package rows across 25 product lines (SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1, SUSE Liberty Linux 9, … (25 product lines)): Fixed 89, Known Not Affected 38. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-30204/
ubuntu medium CVE-2024-30204 medium priority: Ubuntu including 5 source packages (emacs, emacs24, emacs25, xemacs21, xemacs21-packages), 46 status rows across 10 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, upstream, xenial): needs-triage 16, DNE 14, ignored 8, not-affected 4, released 4. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-30204

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2024-30204

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
gnu emacs < 29.3 cpe:2.3:a:gnu:emacs:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnu org_mode < 9.6.23 cpe:2.3:a:gnu:org_mode:*:*:*:*:*:gnu_emacs:*:*
debian debian_linux 10.0 cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2024-30204

URL Tags
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/25/2 Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/08/3 Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/08/4 Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/08/6 Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/08/7 Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/10/3 Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/10/4 Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/10/5 Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/10/6 Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/11/4 Mailing List
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?h=emacs-29&id=6f9ea396f49cbe38c2173e0a72ba6af3e03b271c Patch
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/etc/NEWS?h=emacs-29 Release Notes
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/04/msg00023.html Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/04/msg00024.html Mailing List
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