CVE-2025-4802 (GCVE-0-2025-4802)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-16 19:32 – Updated: 2026-02-26 18:28
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Summary
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).
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-07-26 03:55 UTC
CWE
Assigner
glibc CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 80/100 over 14 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
The GNU C Library glibc Affected: 2.27 , < 2.39 (custom)
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Date Public
2025-05-16 19:30
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