CVE-2025-4802

critical

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).

References

https://sourceware.org/cgit/glibc/commit/?id=1e18586c5820e329f741d5c710275e165581380e

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32976

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/17/2

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/16/7

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-05-16

Updated: 2025-05-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00044