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CVE-2025-4802

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2025-05-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-426

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).

Affected products

• GNU C Library (glibc): from 2.27 through 2.38

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

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