CVE-2025-1244

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.

To exploit this flaw, an attacker needs to trick a user into visiting a specially crafted website, an HTTP URL with a redirect or in general a custom man URI schemes. In order to exploit this vulnerability a user action is required, limiting the possibility of this issue to be exploited.

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

There is no an existing or known mitigation for this issue without disabling part of the Emacs core functionality. However, by avoiding opening or view untrusted files, websites, HTTP URLs or other URI resources with Emacs would reduce or prevent the risk of performing this attack successfully.