Re: Undocumented RCE potential with emacsclient and socket forwarding

Sean Whitton <[email protected]> Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:20:49 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Perry Fraser [31/Jul  9:49am -04] wrote:
> Sean Whitton <[email protected]> writes:
>> I think it would be okay just to document it.
>>
>> FWIW as a user I would not expect that a forwarded socket would be
>> locked down in any particular way.
>
> Do you have any particular reason not to do a backwards-compatible
> customization var that allows disabling the `-eval' command?

I'm concerned that it would provide a false sense of security because
there would be other equivalent ways to make emacsclient do something
unwanted.

-- 
Sean Whitton