CVE-2024-39331VulnerabilityPublished 8 Jun 2026Updated 10 Nov 2026

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Authoritative record:CVE-2024-39331· Critical 9.8

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 9.8 Critical : upgrade the Debian debian/emacs package to 29.4 as a priority.

Data as of 10 Nov 2026, 20:06 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score

9.8Critical

How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

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CVSS scores by source
CISA-ADP	CVSS 3.1	9.8

Patch: Available – fixed in 29.4

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector: Network
Attack Complexity: Low
Privileges Required: None
User Interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality: High
Integrity: High
Availability: High

Bold values are the worst case: easiest to exploit or largest impact.

Attack Vector: Network: The vulnerable component is bound to the network stack and the set of possible attackers extends beyond the other options listed, up to and including the entire Internet. Such a vulnerability is often termed 'remotely exploitable' and can be thought of as an attack being exploitable at the protocol level one or more network hops away (e.g., across one or more routers).
Attack Complexity: Low: Specialized access conditions or extenuating circumstances do not exist. An attacker can expect repeatable success against the vulnerable component.
Privileges Required: None: The attacker is unauthorized prior to attack, and therefore does not require any access to settings or files to carry out an attack.
User Interaction: None: The vulnerable system can be exploited without any interaction from any user.
Scope: Unchanged: An exploited vulnerability can only affect resources managed by the same security authority. In this case, the vulnerable component and the impacted component are either the same, or both are managed by the same security authority.
Confidentiality: High: There is total loss of confidentiality, resulting in all resources within the impacted component being divulged to the attacker. Alternatively, access to only some restricted information is obtained, but the disclosed information presents a direct, serious impact.
Integrity: High: There is a total loss of integrity, or a complete loss of protection. For example, the attacker is able to modify any/all files protected by the impacted component. Alternatively, only some files can be modified, but malicious modification would present a direct, serious consequence to the impacted component.
Availability: High: There is total loss of availability, resulting in the attacker being able to fully deny access to resources in the impacted component; this loss is either sustained (while the attacker continues to deliver the attack) or persistent (the condition persists even after the attack has completed). Alternatively, the attacker has the ability to deny some availability, but the loss of availability presents a direct, serious consequence to the impacted component (e.g., the attacker cannot disrupt existing connections, but can prevent new connections; the attacker can repeatedly exploit a vulnerability that, in each instance of a successful attack, leaks a only small amount of memory, but after repeated exploitation causes a service to become completely unavailable).

Definitions: FIRST CVSS v3.1 specification.

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 23 Jun 2024
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponized: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 10 Nov 2026.

Disclosed: The CVE record is public on cve.org. Its publication is t = 0.
Detectable: A public nuclei template can find exposed instances, for defenders and attackers alike.
Weaponized: A Metasploit exploit module or Exploit-DB entry exists (Metasploit scanner modules do not count), or CISA SSVC or the CVSS exploit maturity reports a public proof of concept.
Exploited in the wild: CISA KEV lists it, CISA SSVC rates exploitation active, or a source reports attacks.
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: OffSeq Mirage honeypot sensors recorded attack traffic for this CVE, or found exposed hosts without attack traffic.

Moments are spaced evenly, not to scale; a dashed line marks a gap of six months or more. Deltas count from t = 0. Sources that give only a date (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, or a time of exactly 00:00Z) read “same day” rather than hours. Metasploit modules carry the flaw’s disclosure date, not their release date, and nuclei templates carry no date, so both appear above but not on the timeline.

What to do

Upgrade the Debian debian/emacs package to 29.4.

Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
Debiandebian/emacs`pkg:deb/debian/emacs`Other threats	Affected <29.4	Fixed in 29.4

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Description

This update for syft fixes the following issues: Changes in syft: - Update to version 1.45.0: * Added Features - Add support for ZapAddOns as jar files [#4654 #4932 @douglasclarke] - MySQL binary classifier should distinguish between MySQL Cluster (ndb) and MySQL [#3297 #4907 @witchcraze] - Catalog ingress-nginx binary [#4818 #4857 @witchcraze] * Bug Fixes - Support helm binary various versions [#4820 #4922 @witchcraze] - Support julia binary various versions [#4867 #4945 @witchcraze] - Support deno binary old versions [#4865 #4939 @witchcraze] - Compressed kernel modules are not scanned by the linux-kernel-cataloger [#4721 #4740 @will-bates11] - Yarn Berry lockfile parser incorrectly deduplicates packages with multiple resolutions [#4691 #4838 @calumleslie] - Possible misdetection of AWS-LC as OpenSSL 1.1.1 [#4539 #4882 @witchcraze] - Support elixir binary rc versions [#4819 #4851 @ChrisJr404] - Exclude path ending with a slash are discarded [#4839 #4892 @ChrisJr404] - Incorrect CPE for .NET Runtime [#4738 #4743 @PGrayCS] - fix parsing of debian/copyright files [#4708 #4754 @Bahtya] - Grype ignores python requirements in arbitrary equality (===) format [#4834 #4835 @cyphercodes] - valkey is detected as both of valkey and redis [#4591 #4619 @witchcraze] - TypeByName missing "nuget" case causes UnknownPkg when reading SPDX SBOMs [#4837 #4848 @ChrisJr404] * Additional Changes - hoist name normalization regexp to package level [#4926 @matiasinsaurralde] - bump the actions-minor-patch group across 1 directory with 6 updates [#4946 @dependabot] - bump the actions-minor-patch group across 2 directories with 2 updates [#4936 @dependabot] - bump the actions-minor-patch group across 1 directory with 4 updates [#4927 @dependabot] - bump the actions-minor-patch group across 1 directory with 2 updates [#4920 @dependabot] - bump the actions-minor-patch group across 1 directory with 2 updates [#4897 @dependabot] - update CPE dictionary index [#4831 @anchore-oss-update-bot] * Dependencies - chore(deps): bump github.com/containerd/containerd/v2 (#4935) - chore(deps): update anchore dependencies (#4821) - chore(deps): bump github.com/go-git/go-git/v5 from 5.19.0 to 5.19.1 (#4930) - chore(deps): update CPE dictionary index (#4925) - chore(deps): update CPE dictionary index (#4909) - chore(deps): bump github.com/go-git/go-git/v5 from 5.18.0 to 5.19.0 (#4911) - Update to version 1.44.0: * Added Features - Add support for linux-riscv64 [#4757 @luhenry] * Bug Fixes - Yarn lockfile cataloguing does not handle aliases [#4833 #4836 @cyphercodes] - Some snippet files are saved in the previous test directory [#4829 #4830 @witchcraze] - empty rockspec causes index out of range [#4824 #4827 @aki1770-del] - PE cataloger shows asp.net core ref assemblies using fileversion build stamp instead of productversion [#4813 #4814 @rezmoss] - Syft safeCopy silently swallows archive decompression errors [#4806 #4807 @SAY-5] - Update to version 1.43.0: * Added Features - added deno bin classifiers [#4677 @rezmoss] - Support haskell old versions [#3237 #4793 @witchcraze] - Add support for OpenLDAP binary detection [#4768 #4755 @nadimz] - Support erlang ols versions [#3235 #4766 @witchcraze] * Bug Fixes - improve redhat-release parsing fallback for RHEL clones [#4808 @westonsteimel] - fix format string in search results struct [#4775 @willmurphyscode] - prevent infinite recursion in Document.UnmarshalJSON with encoding/json/v2 [#4748 @benja-M-1] - Syft can not complete scanning golang image [#4686] - javascript-package-cataloger drops entire package.json when authors/contributors/maintainers is a single string [#4778 #4779 @yoav-orca] - pnpm lock file cataloger produces unstable output [#4648 #4765 @lawrence3699] - Linux Kernel bzImage and zImage not cataloged by linux-kernel-cataloger [#4769 #4751 @nadimz] - Support istio binary (pilot-discovery, pilot-agent) alpha,beta,rc,dev version [#4546 #4645 @witchcraze] - Scanning mounted ISO: duplicate entries [#4759] * Additional Changes - update CPE dictionary index [#4767 @anchore-oss-update-bot] * Dependencies - chore(deps): update anchore dependencies (#4797) - chore(deps): restore Go version to 1.25.8 (#4804) - chore(deps): bump the actions-minor-patch group across 1 directory with 2 updates (#4790) - chore(deps): bump github.com/go-git/go-git/v5 from 5.17.0 to 5.18.0 (#4792) - chore(deps): update Go version (#4798) - chore(deps): update tools to latest versions (#4701) - chore(deps): update Go version (#4773) - chore(deps): bump github.com/aw

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