CVE-2025-4802

Summary

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).

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• CWE-426: CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/16/7
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/17/2
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00033.html

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

• SSVC:
• Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical Impact: total

References

• https://sourceware.org/cgit/glibc/commit/?id=1e18586c5820e329f741d5c710275e165581380e
• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32976

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