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Emacs: shell injection vulnerability in gnu emacs via custom "man" uri scheme (emacs)

CVE-2025-1244
HIGH 8.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 2.63 % · percentile 85 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
redhat
NVD status
Deferred

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Description

A command injection flaw was found in the text editor Emacs. It could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary shell commands on a vulnerable system. Exploitation is possible by tricking users into visiting a specially crafted website or an HTTP URL with a redirect.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-78 — Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hredhat
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · secalert@redhat.com (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
emacsaffected 0 < 29.4.0
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Supportunaffected 1:24.3-23.el7_9.2 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8unaffected 1:26.1-13.el8_10 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8unaffected 1:26.1-13.el8_10 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Supportunaffected 1:26.1-5.el8_2.3 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Supportunaffected 1:26.1-5.el8_4.3 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Telecommunications Update Serviceunaffected 1:26.1-5.el8_4.3 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Update Services for SAP Solutionsunaffected 1:26.1-5.el8_4.3 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Supportunaffected 1:26.1-7.el8_6.6 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Telecommunications Update Serviceunaffected 1:26.1-7.el8_6.6 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Update Services for SAP Solutionsunaffected 1:26.1-7.el8_6.6 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Supportunaffected 1:26.1-10.el8_8.7 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9unaffected 1:27.2-11.el9_5.1 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutionsunaffected 1:27.2-6.el9_0.2 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Supportunaffected 1:27.2-8.el9_2.2 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Supportunaffected 1:27.2-10.el9_4.1 < *
Red Hat · Builds for Red Hat OpenShift 1.3.2unaffected 1.3.1-1741784043 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD