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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 …

High CVSS 8.8
CVECVE-2025-1244
First seen2026-08-02 18:15 UTC
Disclosed2025-02-12 15:15 UTC
Last updated2026-08-02 18:15 UTC
Channel statusauto

Summary

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.

In-depth triage · Auto channel

No in-depth report has been generated yet (DR-003 v2 AI pipeline is under construction).

Lint boundary warnings (3)

The following non-blocking warnings were raised during the lint phase of this triage (e.g. reference URLs not yet on the allowlist). They do not affect entry usability and are disclosed for transparency (see DR-002).

  • REF_URL_NOT_ALLOWLISTED url not in allowlist: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=820f0793f0b46448928905552726c1f1b999062f
  • REF_URL_NOT_ALLOWLISTED url not in allowlist: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=66390
  • REF_URL_NOT_ALLOWLISTED url not in allowlist: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/etc/NEWS?h=emacs-30.1

Sources

  • NVD DATABASE

Original Links

Timeline

  1. nvd_ingest NVD