CVE-2025-1244
Medium
Elevated severity or exploit probability.
CVSS base
8.8
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS — probability of exploitation (30 days)
2.6%
84.9th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness / dates
CWE-78
Published 2025-02-12 · modified 2026-09-06
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.
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