CVE-2025-4802
Published: May 20, 2025Last modified: May 22, 2025
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).
Severity score breakdown
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Base score | 7.8 |
| Attack Vector | LOCAL |
| Attack complexity | LOW |
| Privileges required | NONE |
| User interaction | REQUIRED |
| Scope | UNCHANGED |
| Confidentiality | HIGH |
| Integrity impact | HIGH |
| Availability impact | HIGH |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
Status
| Product | Release | Package | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alpaquita Linux | 23 LTS | glibc | Fixed (2.37.0-r18) |
| Stream | glibc | Fixed (2.39.0-r0) |
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/16/7
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/17/2
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32976
- https://sourceware.org/cgit/glibc/commit/?id=1e18586c5820e329f741d5c710275e165581380e
- https://sourceware.org/cgit/glibc/commit/?id=5451fa962cd0a90a0e2ec1d8910a559ace02bba0