CVE-2025-4802

HIGH EPSS 30.8%
Published May 16, 20251y ago · Modified Jun 17, 20262w ago
7.8 CVSS 3.1
High
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Published May 16, 2025 1y ago
Last Modified Jun 17, 2026 2w ago

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).

CVSS Details

Base Score
7.8
Exploitability
1.8
Impact
5.9
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity High
Availability High

Threat Intelligence

EPSS Exploit Probability
30.8% percentile
Exploit & Patch Status
Public Exploit Known
Patch Available

Weaknesses 1

CWE-426

Affected Products 1

VendorProductVersionRange
gnuglibc*≥2.27  –  ≤2.38

References 5

  • openwall.com http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/16/7
    Mailing List
  • openwall.com http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/17/2
    ExploitMailing List
  • lists.debian.org https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00033.html
  • sourceware.org https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32976
    Issue Tracking
  • sourceware.org https://sourceware.org/cgit/glibc/commit/?id=1e18586c5820e329f741d5c710275e165581380e
    Patch

Remediation

  • sourceware.org https://sourceware.org/cgit/glibc/commit/?id=1e18586c5820e329f741d5c710275e165581380e
    Patch