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CVE record · CVE-2025-1244

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

CVSS 8.8 HighEPSS 0.026 · 85th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 12 Feb 2025, 14:27 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Not given Not given Package name: emacs https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/
  • affected before 29.4.0 semver
Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support Package name: emacs https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/
  • unaffected 1:24.3-23.el7_9.2 to before * rpm
Other versions: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Package name: emacs https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/
  • unaffected 1:26.1-13.el8_10 to before * rpm
Other versions: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Package name: emacs https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/
  • unaffected 1:26.1-13.el8_10 to before * rpm
Other versions: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support Package name: emacs https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/
  • unaffected 1:26.1-5.el8_2.3 to before * rpm
Other versions: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support Package name: emacs https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/
  • unaffected 1:26.1-5.el8_4.3 to before * rpm
Other versions: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Telecommunications Update Service Package name: emacs https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/
  • unaffected 1:26.1-5.el8_4.3 to before * rpm
Other versions: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions Package name: emacs https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/
  • unaffected 1:26.1-5.el8_4.3 to before * rpm
Other versions: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support Package name: emacs https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/
  • unaffected 1:26.1-7.el8_6.6 to before * rpm
Other versions: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Telecommunications Update Service Package name: emacs https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/
  • unaffected 1:26.1-7.el8_6.6 to before * rpm
Other versions: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Update Services for SAP Solutions Package name: emacs https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/
  • unaffected 1:26.1-7.el8_6.6 to before * rpm
Other versions: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support Package name: emacs https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/
  • unaffected 1:26.1-10.el8_8.7 to before * rpm
Other versions: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Package name: emacs https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/
  • unaffected 1:27.2-11.el9_5.1 to before * rpm
Other versions: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions Package name: emacs https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/
  • unaffected 1:27.2-6.el9_0.2 to before * rpm
Other versions: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support Package name: emacs https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/
  • unaffected 1:27.2-8.el9_2.2 to before * rpm
Other versions: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support Package name: emacs https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/
  • unaffected 1:27.2-10.el9_4.1 to before * rpm
Other versions: affected
Red Hat Builds for Red Hat OpenShift 1.3.2 Package name: openshift-builds/openshift-builds-git-cloner-rhel9 https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/
  • unaffected 1.3.1-1741784043 to before * rpm
Other versions: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Package name: emacs https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Package name: emacs https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: unknown
Identifiers
CVE-2025-1244
CNA
redhat
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-78
Tags
Published
12 Feb 2025
Updated
4 Nov 2026

Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
8.8 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CNA (redhat)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.026, the 85th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 12 Feb 2025, 14:27 UTC Confirmed by the CVE List
  2. 12 Feb 2025, 15:15 UTC Confirmed by NVD

Sources

References from the CNA

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