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CVE-2025-4802
Untrusted LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable vulnerability in the GNU C Library version 2.27 to 2.38 allows attacker controlled loading…
High7.8EPSS 0.59%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- glibc
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
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.59% · top 51% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected 2.27 – < 2.39
References (5)
- https://sourceware.org/cgit/glibc/commit/?id=1e18586c5820e329f741d5c710275e165581380e (opens in a new tab)
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32976 (opens in a new tab)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/16/7 (opens in a new tab)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/17/2 (opens in a new tab)
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00033.html (opens in a new tab)
Sources
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- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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