High [CVE-2025-1244] shell injection vulnerability in gnu emacs via custom "man" uri scheme
This high-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2025-1244 affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support.
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Summary
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. In order to exploit this vulnerability a user action is required, limiting the possibility of this issue to be exploited.
Red Hat severity: Important — CVSS 8.8 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H). Weakness: CWE-78.
Affected Red Hat products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Telecommunications Update Service; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Telecommunications Update Service; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Update Services for SAP Solutions; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support; Builds for Red Hat OpenShift 1.3.2; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
Affected versions
No affected-version range was extracted from the source record. The vendor advisory is authoritative — check it before change work.
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 4 days ago·verify at source
- emacs-1:24.3-23.el7_9.2
- emacs-1:26.1-13.el8_10
- emacs-1:26.1-5.el8_2.3
- emacs-1:26.1-5.el8_4.3
- emacs-1:26.1-7.el8_6.6
- emacs-1:26.1-10.el8_8.7
- emacs-1:27.2-11.el9_5.1
- emacs-1:27.2-6.el9_0.2
- emacs-1:27.2-8.el9_2.2
- emacs-1:27.2-10.el9_4.1
- openshift-builds/openshift-builds-git-cloner-rhel9:1.3.1-1741784043
- RHSA-2025:2130
- RHSA-2025:1917
- RHSA-2025:2157
- RHSA-2025:1963
- RHSA-2025:1961
- RHSA-2025:1962
- RHSA-2025:1915
- RHSA-2025:2022
- RHSA-2025:1964
- RHSA-2025:2195
- RHSA-2025:2754
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 4 days ago·verify at source
Mitigation checklist
- There is no an existing or known mitigation for this issue without disabling part of the Emacs core functionality. However, by avoiding opening or view untrusted files, websites, HTTP URLs or other URI resources with Emacs would reduce or prevent the risk of performing this attack successfully.
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 4 days ago·verify at source
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