RHSA-2025:2130HighCVSS 8.8

Red Hat Security Advisory: emacs security update

Published
March 3, 2025
Last Modified
August 17, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2025-1244 →

📋 Description

CVE-2025-1244 — emacs: Shell Injection Vulnerability in GNU Emacs via Custom "man" URI Scheme

🎯 Affected products22

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7 ELS)
  • emacs-1:24.3-23.el7_9.2.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • emacs-1:24.3-23.el7_9.2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • emacs-1:24.3-23.el7_9.2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • emacs-1:24.3-23.el7_9.2.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • emacs-1:24.3-23.el7_9.2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • emacs-common-1:24.3-23.el7_9.2.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • emacs-common-1:24.3-23.el7_9.2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • emacs-common-1:24.3-23.el7_9.2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • emacs-common-1:24.3-23.el7_9.2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • emacs-debuginfo-1:24.3-23.el7_9.2.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • emacs-debuginfo-1:24.3-23.el7_9.2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • emacs-debuginfo-1:24.3-23.el7_9.2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • emacs-debuginfo-1:24.3-23.el7_9.2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • emacs-el-1:24.3-23.el7_9.2.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7 ELS)
  • emacs-filesystem-1:24.3-23.el7_9.2.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • emacs-nox-1:24.3-23.el7_9.2.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • emacs-nox-1:24.3-23.el7_9.2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • emacs-nox-1:24.3-23.el7_9.2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • emacs-nox-1:24.3-23.el7_9.2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 ELS)
  • emacs-terminal-1:24.3-23.el7_9.2.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7 ELS)

✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 Workaround: 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.

🔗 References (4)