USN-8756-1

It was discovered that Yelp allowed help documents to execute arbitrary scripts. An attacker could possibly use this issue to trick a user into opening a specially crafted help document and obtain sensitive information.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS / yelp

Package

Name: yelp
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/yelp?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy%2Fxenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

3.18.1-1ubuntu4+esm2

Affected versions

3.*

3.16.1-1ubuntu1

3.16.1-1ubuntu2

3.18.1-1ubuntu2

3.18.1-1ubuntu3

3.18.1-1ubuntu4

3.18.1-1ubuntu4+esm1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro with Legacy support add-on: https://ubuntu.com/pro",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libyelp0",
            "binary_version": "3.18.1-1ubuntu4+esm2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "yelp",
            "binary_version": "3.18.1-1ubuntu4+esm2"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2025-3155",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N",
                    "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS"
}

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-8756-1.json"

Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS / yelp