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CVE-2025-1244
A command injection flaw was found in the text editor Emacs.
HIGH 8.8EPSS 2.63%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.63%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 2.63% probability · 85th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-78
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:1915
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:1917
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:1961
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:1962
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:1963
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:1964
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2022
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2130
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2157
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2195
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:2754
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-1244
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2345150
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=820f0793f0b46448928905552726c1f1b999062f
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/03/01/2
- https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=66390
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/etc/NEWS?h=emacs-30.1
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/02/msg00033.html
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.