VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2025-4802

CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability0.59%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2025-05-16
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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).

Weakness classification

  • CWE-426: Untrusted Search Path

Primary references