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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 c

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).

HIGH · CVSS 7.8 EPSS 0.00043
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  • CVSS base score ≥ 7.0
Sigma rules0 YARA rules0
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Weakness Classification

CWE-426Untrusted Search Path
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Affected Products & Versions

1
gnu glibc>= 2.27 and <= 2.38
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Scoring & Timeline

7.8
HIGH · CVSS v3.1 · 3ff69d7a-14f2-4f67-a097-88dee7810d18
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Attack Vector
Network Adjacent Local Physical
Attack Complexity
Low High
Privileges Required
None Low High
User Interaction
None Required
Scope
Unchanged Changed
Confidentiality
None Low High
Integrity
None Low High
Availability
None Low High
Published to NVD16 May 2025 · 08:15 PM
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC triage · cisa-vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
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Vendor Advisories

21
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2025:15697-1
msrcCVE-2025-4802
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2025:15222-1
rhsaRHSA-2025:11487Important
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2025:01702-2
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References & Sources

5
Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32976Issue Tracking
https://sourceware.org/cgit/glibc/commit/?id=1e18586c5820e329f741d5c710275e165581380ePatch
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/16/7Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/17/2ExploitMailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00033.html
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