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.

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 / 25.04 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-7447-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Yelp incorrectly handled paths in ghelp URLs. A remote attacker could use this     issue to trick users into opening malicious downloaded help files and exfiltrate sensitive information.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

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

Detections

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CVE-2025-3155

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Tenable Plugins

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