CVE-2026-6861

medium

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.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2459992

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-6861

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-04-22

Updated: 2026-04-22

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00015