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Advisory severityHigh7.4Red Hat Linux

High [CVE-2025-3155] Yelp: arbitrary file read

This high-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2025-3155 affecting 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.

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CVE-2025-3155 Source published Source updated

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CVE-2025-3155
Affected products & platforms
Red Hat LinuxRed Hat Enterprise Linux
Open source advisory

Summary

A flaw was found in Yelp. The Gnome user help application allows the help document to execute arbitrary scripts.

This vulnerability allows malicious users to input help documents, which may exfiltrate user files to an external environment.

Red Hat has evaluated this with a Important severity as this requires user interaction and possibly access to add malicious JavaScript content, allowing the attacker to exfiltrate files from the victim's end with minimal user interaction. Weakness: CWE-601.

Affected Red Hat products: 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; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Will not fix / out of support: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Is CVE-2025-3155 exploited?

No exploitation is reported in the sources VulniPulse tracks: CVE-2025-3155 is not in the CISA KEV catalog (checked ) and this advisory does not report exploitation. That is not proof the vulnerability cannot be exploited.

How do I fix CVE-2025-3155?

Upgrade to a fixed release named by Red Hat:

  • yelp-2:3.28.1-3.el8_10.1
  • yelp-xsl-0:3.28.0-2.el8_10.1
  • yelp-2:3.28.1-3.el8_2.1
  • yelp-2:3.28.1-3.el8_4.1
  • yelp-2:3.28.1-3.el8_6.1
  • yelp-2:3.28.1-3.el8_8.1
  • yelp-2:40.3-2.el9_6.1
  • yelp-2:40.3-2.el9_0.1
  • yelp-2:40.3-2.el9_2.1
  • yelp-2:40.3-2.el9_4.1
  • RHSA-2025:7569
  • RHSA-2025:4457

7 more fixed releases are listed below.

Confirm against the vendor advisory before you patch.

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 7 days ago·verify at source

Fixed versions
  • yelp-2:3.28.1-3.el8_10.1
  • yelp-xsl-0:3.28.0-2.el8_10.1
  • yelp-2:3.28.1-3.el8_2.1
  • yelp-2:3.28.1-3.el8_4.1
  • yelp-2:3.28.1-3.el8_6.1
  • yelp-2:3.28.1-3.el8_8.1
  • yelp-2:40.3-2.el9_6.1
  • yelp-2:40.3-2.el9_0.1
  • yelp-2:40.3-2.el9_2.1
  • yelp-2:40.3-2.el9_4.1
  • RHSA-2025:7569
  • RHSA-2025:4457
  • RHSA-2025:4451
  • RHSA-2025:4455
  • RHSA-2025:4532
  • RHSA-2025:7430
  • RHSA-2025:4450
  • RHSA-2025:4505
  • RHSA-2025:4456

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 7 days ago·verify at source

Mitigation checklist

Recommended fix / mitigation
  • Currently, no mitigation is available for this vulnerability.

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 7 days ago·verify at source

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