VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2025-15281

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability0.49%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2026-01-20
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

Calling wordexp with WRDE_REUSE in conjunction with WRDE_APPEND in the GNU C Library version 2.0 to version 2.42 may cause the interface to return uninitialized memory in the we_wordv member, which on subsequent calls to wordfree may abort the process.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-908: Use of Uninitialized Resource

Primary references