CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-6861
7.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-04-22
- Last modified
- 2026-10-26
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.1 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-193
Description
A flaw was found in GNU Emacs. This vulnerability, a memory corruption issue, occurs when Emacs processes specially crafted SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) data. A local user could exploit this by convincing a victim to open a malicious SVG file, which may lead to a denial of service (DoS) or potentially information disclosure.
Affected configurations
• gnu emacs (>= 28.1 <= 30.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-193 Off-by-one Error weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-6861 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2459992 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory