High USN-7447-1 1 CVE

yelp, yelp-xsl vulnerability

Published Apr 23, 2025 · Updated Apr 27, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

It was discovered that Yelp incorrectly handled paths in ghelp URLs. A
remote attacker could use this issue to trick users into opening malicious
downloaded help files and exfiltrate sensitive information.

Fixed packages 6

Release	Package	Fixed in
Ubuntu · 20.04 LTS 20.04:LTS	yelp	3.36.2-0ubuntu1.1
Ubuntu · 20.04 LTS 20.04:LTS	yelp-xsl	3.36.0-1ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu · 22.04 LTS 22.04:LTS	yelp	42.1-1ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu · 22.04 LTS 22.04:LTS	yelp-xsl	42.0-1ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu · 24.04 LTS 24.04:LTS	yelp	42.2-1ubuntu0.24.04.1
Ubuntu · 24.04 LTS 24.04:LTS	yelp-xsl	42.1-2ubuntu0.24.04.1

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.4

CVE-2025-3155 EPSS 13%

Yelp: arbitrary file read

A flaw was found in Yelp. The Gnome user help application allows the help document to execute arbitrary scripts. This vulnerability allows malicious users to input help documents, which may exfiltrate user files to an external environment.

Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Linux Debian Ubuntu Alpine

Apr 3, 2025

References

report
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-3155