🛡️ CVE-2025-3155 on Debian — yelp

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
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CVSS Score
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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.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2025-3155 as tracked by Debian, for the package yelp. The fix is available in version 42.2-3; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

Weakness class

DEBIAN-CVE-2025-3155 is classified as CWE-601: Open Redirect. A redirect target is taken from user input, so a trusted link can send the visitor to an attacker's site.

Affected software

DEBIAN-CVE-2025-3155 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • yelp (fixed in 42.2-3)
  • yelp-xsl (fixed in 42.1-4)

Timeline and source

Published on 3 April 2025 and last revised on 4 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

security-tracker.debian.org (Advisory)

CVE-2025-3155 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2025-04-03
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
yelp — 42.2-3
yelp-xsl — 42.1-4

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