Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for kakoune.

I think this would be no-dsa in principle as needing to edit an
untrusted file to be auto restored. But raising it to RC level as this
shoul be fixed for forky and across down to trixie so far we have only
the 2024.05.18-2 based version.

CVE-2026-48120[0]:
| Kakoune is a code editor. Prior to version 2026.05.21, the bundled,
| enabled by default, `autorestore.kak` script can be exploited by
| malicious backup files leading to arbitrary kakoune and shell
| commands being executed by simply opening a file. Kakoune 2026.05.21
| fixes the issue. As a workaround, add `autorestore-disable` to the
| user kakrc will disable the autorestore feature.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-48120
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-48120
[1] https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/security/advisories/GHSA-h99r-h8cp-vwcq
[2] https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/commit/25c7b13b244fd1ddacc63ecfe1784b5ebc2ba825

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
kakoune, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1143968@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Peter Pentchev <roam@debian.org> (supplier of updated kakoune package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:10:04 +0300
Source: kakoune
Architecture: source
Version: 2026.05.21-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Peter Pentchev <roam@debian.org>
Changed-By: Peter Pentchev <roam@debian.org>
Closes: 1143968
Changes:
 kakoune (2026.05.21-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Declare compliance with Policy 4.7.4, drop the implied Priority: optional.
   * Refresh the debputy-style formatting.
   * Convert the watch file to version 5 of the format.
   * Add Salsa CI configuration.
   * New upstream release:
     - includes the fix for CVE-2026-48120; Closes: #1143968
     - drop the 01-typos patch
     - drop the 09-parallel-dirs patch, integrated upstream
     - refresh patch line numbers
     - add the 09-sizeof-char-ptr patch to fix the 32-bit FTBFS
   * Switch back to debhelper-compat now that debhelper 14 is out.
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