High RHSA-2025:2130 1 CVE

Red Hat Security Advisory: emacs security update

Published Mar 4, 2025 · Updated Sep 6, 2026

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 7

Release	Package	Fixed in
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	emacs	1:24.3-23.el7_9.2
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	emacs-common	1:24.3-23.el7_9.2
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	emacs-debuginfo	1:24.3-23.el7_9.2
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	emacs-el	1:24.3-23.el7_9.2
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	emacs-filesystem	1:24.3-23.el7_9.2
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	emacs-nox	1:24.3-23.el7_9.2
Red Hat · RHEL 7 ELS rhel_els:7	emacs-terminal	1:24.3-23.el7_9.2

Vulnerabilities 1

High 8.8

CVE-2025-1244

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

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 …

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Feb 12, 2025

References

article
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
report
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2345150
advisory
https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2025/rhsa-2025_2130.json
report
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-1244
advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-1244
advisory
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-1244
article
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=820f0793f0b46448928905552726c1f1b999062f