CVE-2026-6861
highA flaw was found in GNU Emacs.
Vendor / product: Gnu — emacs
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.
CVSS
7.1
7.1 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (nvd@nist.gov)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2026-04-22 14:17
Modified: 2026-11-05 23:16
NVD status: Analyzed
Last synced 6 hours ago
Verified against the source API 2026-11-05 23:24 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).
Affected products
gnu / emacs ≥28.1 ≤30.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.
Mitigation & advisories
No vendor advisory or patch reference tagged by NVD. Check the references below.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-6861 secalert@redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2459992 secalert@redhat.com
Data sources
NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-11-05 23:24 UTC · record ↗