CVE-2025-4802
GNU C Library LD_LIBRARY_PATH Path Traversal Vulnerability
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).
INFO
Published Date :
May 16, 2025, 8:15 p.m.
Last Modified :
May 17, 2025, 3:16 a.m.
Source :
3ff69d7a-14f2-4f67-a097-88dee7810d18
Remotely Exploitable :
Yes !
Impact Score :
5.9
Exploitability Score :
3.9
Affected Products
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CVE Modified by 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
May. 17, 2025
Action Type Old Value New Value Added CVSS V3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H -
CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
May. 17, 2025
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/16/7 -
New CVE Received by 3ff69d7a-14f2-4f67-a097-88dee7810d18
May. 16, 2025
Action Type Old Value New Value Added 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). Added CWE CWE-426 Added Reference https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32976 Added Reference https://sourceware.org/cgit/glibc/commit/?id=1e18586c5820e329f741d5c710275e165581380e
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
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