CVE-2025-4802

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 products

Almalinux, Astra Linux, Centos, Debian, Gnu C Library, Linuxmint, Red Hat, Red Os

Gnu Glibc

≤ 2.38

Fix

Available

CVSS 3.1

7.8 HIGH

EPSS

0.6% (44th percentile)

Weakness

CWE-426

NVD status

Modified

Published

2025-05-16

Attack patterns

CAPEC-13