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.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2025-1244 is rated Moderate Risk (63.3/100): CVSS High severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.29%). Mandatory action: Review affected assets and schedule remediation.
Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.
EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2026-03-30 | 1.08% | 1.29% | +0.21% |
| 2 | 2026-03-23 | 0.39% | 1.08% | +0.70% |
| 3 | 2026-03-02 | — | 0.39% | — |
Full EPSS history (13 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8.8 | 3.1 | HIGH |
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2.8 | 5.9 | [email protected] |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
debian
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not yet assigned | CVE-2025-1244 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (emacs), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-1244 |
gentoo
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high | CVE-2025-1244: 1 GLSA(s) (202506-01), 1 atom(s) (app-editors/emacs); latest impact high. | https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2025-1244 |
redhat
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high | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-1244 |
suse
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high | CVE-2025-1244 severity important: SUSE including 50 source package names (emacs-24.3-23.el7_9.2, emacs-24.3-25.23.1, …), 167 product×package rows across 30 product lines (SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1, SUSE Liberty Linux 7 LTSS, … (30 product lines)): Fixed 167. | https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-1244/ |
ubuntu
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medium | CVE-2025-1244 medium priority: Ubuntu including 5 source packages (emacs, emacs24, emacs25, xemacs21, xemacs21-packages), 41 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, upstream, xenial): needs-triage 15, DNE 12, ignored 9, released 4, not-affected 1. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-1244 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| No affected products in dataset. | |||