CVE-2025-4802

CVSS 7.8 - HIGH
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
1
Vendor Product Version
gnu glibc All versions
Weakness Types
CWE-426
CVE Information
CVE ID:
CVE-2025-4802
Published:
2025-05-16
Modified:
2025-11-03
CVSS Score:
7.8
Severity:
HIGH
Vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected Vendors
gnu
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CVSS Severity Scale
0.0 - 3.9 LOW
4.0 - 6.9 MEDIUM
7.0 - 8.9 HIGH
9.0 - 10.0 CRITICAL