CVE-2025-1244

Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing. And it is an entire ecosystem of functionality beyond text editing, including a project planner, mail and news reader, debugger interface, calendar, and more.

Security Fix(es):

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.(CVE-2025-1244)

GNU Emacs is a powerful, customizable, self-documenting text editor. It provides special code editing features, a scripting language (elisp), and the capability to read e-mail and news.

Security Fix(es):

• emacs: Shell Injection Vulnerability in GNU Emacs via Custom "man" URI Scheme (CVE-2025-1244)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

GNU Emacs is a powerful, customizable, self-documenting text editor. It provides special code editing features, a scripting language (elisp), and the capability to read e-mail and news.

Security Fix(es):

• emacs: Shell Injection Vulnerability in GNU Emacs via Custom "man" URI Scheme (CVE-2025-1244)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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.

GNU Emacs is a powerful, customizable, self-documenting text editor. It provides special code editing features, a scripting language (elisp), and the capability to read e-mail and news.

Security Fix(es):

• emacs: Shell Injection Vulnerability in GNU Emacs via Custom "man" URI Scheme (CVE-2025-1244)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

GNU Emacs is a powerful, customizable, self-documenting text editor. It provides special code editing features, a scripting language (elisp), and the capability to read e-mail and news.

Security Fix(es):

• emacs: Shell Injection Vulnerability in GNU Emacs via Custom "man" URI Scheme (CVE-2025-1244)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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.

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.

• CVE-2025-1244: fix command injection flaw by sanitizing input

• CVE-2025-1244: fix man.el shell injection vulnerability

A command injection flaw was found which could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary shell commands by tricking users into visiting a specially crafted website or an HTTP URL with a redirect.

These are all security issues fixed in the emacs-29.4-14.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

This update for emacs fixes the following issues:

• CVE-2025-1244: improper handling of custom 'man' URI schemes allow for shell command injections. (bsc#1237091)

This update for emacs fixes the following issues:

• CVE-2025-1244: improper handling of custom 'man' URI schemes allow for shell command injections. (bsc#1237091)

This update for emacs fixes the following issues:

• CVE-2025-1244: improper handling of custom 'man' URI schemes allow for shell command injections. (bsc#1237091)

It was discovered that Emacs could trigger unsafe Lisp macro expansion, when a user invoked elisp-completion-at-point on untrusted Emacs Lisp source code. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2024-53920)

It was discovered that Emacs did not properly sanitize input when handling certain URI schemes. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary shell commands by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted URL. (CVE-2025-1244)