Subject: Re: bug#48676: Arbitrary code execution in Org export macros

From: Rafael Ramirez Morales <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 09:02:20 +0200

Just a couple of questions:
who is the owner of the HELLO file?
OR
who is the owner of the "touch" process?

Is the owner the unprivileged user or the "emacs" system?

Thanks.

On Wed, 26 May 2021 at 17:53, Glenn Morris <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Package: emacs,org-mode
> Version: 28.0.50
> Severity: important
> Tags: security
>
> emacs -Q hello.org, where hello.org contains:
>
> #+macro: hello (eval (shell-command-to-string "touch /tmp/HELLO"))
> Hello. {{{hello}}}
>
> Then:
> M-x org-export-dispatch
> t A
>
> -> now /tmp/HELLO exist, with no prompting.
>
> This seems contrary to normal Emacs practice for risky local variables,
> and to the section "Code Evaluation and Security Issues" in the Org manual
> (which does not mention macros).
>
>