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CVE-2025-4802
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2025-05-16T20:15:22.280 · Last modified 2026-06-17T09:34:02.647

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 products

gnu — glibc

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