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CVE-2025-4802

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Date: May 16, 2025

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).

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Related Resources (7)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/17/2
https://sourceware.org/cgit/glibc/commit/?id=1e18586c5820e329f741d5c710275e165581380e
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-4802
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-4802
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32976
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/16/7
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2025-4802

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CWE-426

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): REQUIRED
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): HIGH

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