CVE-2025-4802
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.8 High
- Published
- May 16, 2025
- Updated
- Feb 26, 2026
- Reserved
- May 15, 2025
Description
Untrusted LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable vulnerability in the GNU C Library version 2.27 to 2.38 allows attacker controlled loading of dynamically shared library in statically compiled setuid binaries that call dlopen (including internal dlopen calls after setlocale or calls to NSS functions such as getaddrinfo).
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.8 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | CISA-ADP |
Weaknesses
- CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
glibcThe GNU C Library |
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References
- https://sourceware.org/cgit/glibc/commit/?id=1e18586c5820e329f741d5c710275e165581380e
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32976
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/16/7
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/17/2
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00033.html
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