CVE-2025-3155
What it is
A flaw was found in Yelp. The Gnome user help application allows the help document to execute arbitrary scripts. This vulnerability allows malicious users to input help documents, which may exfiltrate user files to an external environment.
At a glance
- Exploitability
- Can be exploited over the network without logging in, but needs a user to act. High risk of data exposure.
- Exploit odds
- 13.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS). Higher than most.
- Fix
- No patch or advisory is linked yet. Look at mitigations or restrict exposure.
Timeline
- PublishedDisclosed publicly on CVE.org and NVD
- Last updatedMost recent change to the record
Details
- Published
- Last modified
- Exploit probability
- 13.1% · EPSS, next 30 days
- Weakness
- CWE-601
- Record status
- Modified
Affected
- Gnome Yelp 42.2-8
- Debian Linux 11.0
- Redhat Codeready Linux Builder 8.0
- Redhat Codeready Linux Builder 9.0
- Redhat Codeready Linux Builder For arm64 8.0_aarch64
- Redhat Codeready Linux Builder For arm64 9.0_aarch64
- Redhat Codeready Linux Builder For arm64 Eus 8.8_aarch64
- Redhat Codeready Linux Builder For arm64 Eus 9.2_aarch64
Attack profile CVSS 3.1 · 7.4
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:4450
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:4451
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:4455
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:4456
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:4457
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:4505
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:4532
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:7430
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:7569
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-3155
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2357091
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/yelp/-/issues/221
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/04/04/1
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00036.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00037.html
- https://gist.github.com/parrot409/e970b155358d45b298d7024edd9b17f2