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 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).

Score

CVSS 3.1 7.8 High

Status

Modified - 3ff69d7a-14f2-4f67-a097-88dee7810d18

Published

2025-05-16

Last modified

2026-02-26

Weaknesses

CWE-426

Affected products

• Glibc (Gnu)
• Glibc (The Gnu C Library)

References

• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32976
• https://sourceware.org/cgit/glibc/commit/?id=1e18586c5820e329f741d5c710275e165581380e
• 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