CVE-2025-3155

Publication date 3 April 2025

Last updated 14 September 2026

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
yelp	26.04 LTS resolute	Not affected
	25.10 questing	Not affected
	25.04 plucky	Fixed 42.2-2ubuntu0.1
	24.10 oracular	Fixed 42.2-1ubuntu0.24.10.1
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 42.2-1ubuntu0.24.04.1
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 42.1-1ubuntu0.1
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 3.36.2-0ubuntu1.1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 3.26.0-1ubuntu2+esm2
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 3.18.1-1ubuntu4+esm2

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Notes

mdeslaur

as of 2025-04-15, upstream Yelp developers have not committed a patch for this issue

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.4 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	None

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.4 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

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

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-7447-1
Yelp vulnerability
23 April 2025

USN-8756-1
Yelp vulnerability
14 September 2026