CVE-2025-4802
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2025-05-16 | |
| Impact: | Moderate | What is this? |
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).
See more information about CVE-2025-4802 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD
NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v3 metrics
| Base Score: | 7.0 |
| Vector String: | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Version: | 3.1 |
| Attack Vector: | Local |
| Attack Complexity: | High |
| Privileges Required: | None |
| User Interaction: | Required |
| Scope: | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality Impact: | High |
| Integrity Impact: | High |
| Availability Impact: | High |
Errata information
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (glibc) | ELSA-2025-20375 | 2025-06-17 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (glibc) | ELSA-2025-8686 | 2025-06-10 |
| Oracle Linux version 9 (glibc) | ELSA-2025-8655 | 2025-06-09 |
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