RHSA-2025:11030 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: emacs security update
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · July 15, 2025
Updated · November 4, 2026
Topic
An update for emacs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description
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: arbitrary code execution via Lisp macro expansion (CVE-2024-53920)
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.