The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:1915 advisory.

    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: Shell Injection Vulnerability in GNU Emacs via Custom man URI Scheme (CVE-2025-1244)

    * emacs: Shell Injection Vulnerability in GNU Emacs via Custom man URI Scheme [rhel-9.5.z]     (CVE-2025-1244)

    Bug Fix(es):

    * Eliminate use of obsolete %patchN syntax [rhel-9.5.z] (JIRA:RHEL-80450)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 9 : emacs (RHSA-2025:1915)

high Nessus Plugin ID 216906

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.2 Feb 27, 2025, 8:05 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202502272005
Version 1.1 Feb 27, 2025, 2:39 PM New Plugin Feed: 202502271439