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Glibc CVE-2025-4802

HIGH
Untrusted Search Path (CWE-426)
2025-05-16 3ff69d7a-14f2-4f67-a097-88dee7810d18
7.8
CVSS 3.1 · NVD
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Severity by source

NVD PRIMARY
7.8 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SUSE
HIGH
qualitative
Red Hat
7.0 MEDIUM
qualitative

Primary rating from NVD.

CVSS VectorNVD

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Lifecycle Timeline

4
Analysis Generated
Mar 28, 2026 - 18:42 vuln.today
Patch released
Mar 28, 2026 - 18:42 nvd
Patch available
PoC Detected
Nov 03, 2025 - 20:19 vuln.today
Public exploit code
CVE Published
May 16, 2025 - 20:15 nvd
HIGH 7.8

DescriptionCVE.org

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).

AnalysisAI

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. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Technical ContextAI

This vulnerability is classified under CWE-426. 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 include: Gnu Glibc. Version information: version 2.27.

RemediationAI

A vendor patch is available. Apply the latest security update as soon as possible. Apply vendor patches when available. Implement network segmentation and monitoring as interim mitigations.

Vendor StatusVendor

SUSE

Severity: High
Product Status
Container bci/bci-busybox:15.6 Container bci/dotnet-aspnet:8.0.16-61.2 Container bci/dotnet-aspnet:9.0 Container bci/dotnet-runtime:8.0.16-61.2 Container bci/dotnet-runtime:9.0 Container bci/dotnet-sdk:8.0.16-61.3 Container bci/dotnet-sdk:9.0 Container bci/nodejs:22.13.1-34.10 Container bci/openjdk-devel:17.0.15.0-7.11 Container bci/openjdk-devel:25.0.1.0-2.1 Container bci/openjdk:17.0.15.0-7.8 Container bci/openjdk:25.0.1.0-2.1 Container bci/php-apache:8.3.19-10.3 Container bci/php-fpm:8.3.19-10.3 Container bci/php:8.3.19-10.3 Container bci/python:3.6.15-71.3 Container containers/lmcache-lmstack-router:0.1.6-1.2 Container containers/milvus:2.4.6-7.119 Container containers/ollama:0.6.8-10.12 Container containers/open-webui-mcpo:0.0.17-1.1 Container containers/open-webui-pipelines:0.20250329.151219-5.2 Container containers/suse-ai-observability-extension-runtime:1.0.3-4.18 Container containers/suse-ai-observability-extension-setup:1.0.3-3.20 Container private-registry/harbor-core:1.1.0-1.1 Container private-registry/harbor-exporter:1.1.0-1.1 Container private-registry/harbor-jobservice:1.1.0-1.1 Container private-registry/harbor-nginx:1.21.5-2.15 Container private-registry/harbor-portal:1.1.0-1.1 Container private-registry/harbor-registry:1.1.0-1.1 Container private-registry/harbor-registryctl:1.1.0-1.1 Container private-registry/harbor-trivy-adapter:1.1.0-1.1 Container private-registry/harbor-valkey:8.0.2-2.17 Container suse/389-ds:2.5.3-61.3 Container suse/bind:9.20.9-61.4 Container suse/cosign:2.5.0-11.4 Container suse/git:2 Container suse/helm:3.17.3-61.4 Container suse/kiosk/firefox-esr:esr Container suse/kiosk/pulseaudio:17 Container suse/kiosk/xorg:21 Container suse/kubectl:oldstable-2.61.4 Container suse/kubectl:stable-1.3.4 Container suse/manager/5.0/x86_64/proxy-httpd:5.0.4.7.17.1 Container suse/manager/5.0/x86_64/proxy-salt-broker:5.0.4.7.19.1 Container suse/manager/5.0/x86_64/proxy-squid:5.0.4.7.17.1 Container suse/manager/5.0/x86_64/proxy-ssh:5.0.4.7.17.1 Container suse/manager/5.0/x86_64/proxy-tftpd:5.0.4.7.17.1 Container suse/manager/5.0/x86_64/server-attestation:5.0.4.6.17.1 Container suse/manager/5.0/x86_64/server-hub-xmlrpc-api:5.0.4.6.17.1 Container suse/mariadb-client:10.11 Container suse/mariadb:10.11 Container suse/multi-linux-manager/5.1/x86_64/proxy-httpd:5.1.0.6.27 Container suse/multi-linux-manager/5.1/x86_64/proxy-salt-broker:5.1.0.7.32 Container suse/multi-linux-manager/5.1/x86_64/proxy-squid:5.1.0.6.21 Container suse/multi-linux-manager/5.1/x86_64/proxy-ssh:5.1.0.6.20 Container suse/multi-linux-manager/5.1/x86_64/proxy-tftpd:5.1.0.6.19 Container suse/multi-linux-manager/5.1/x86_64/server-attestation:5.1.0.6.20 Container suse/multi-linux-manager/5.1/x86_64/server-hub-xmlrpc-api:5.1.0.6.21 Container suse/multi-linux-manager/5.1/x86_64/server-saline:5.1.2.9.13.1 Container suse/nginx:1.21-9.3 Container suse/pcp:6 Container suse/registry:2.8 Container suse/rmt-server:2.21-71.2 Container suse/stunnel:5.70-61.4 Container suse/valkey:8.0.2-61.4 Container trento/trento-wanda:1.5.0-build1.29.1 Container trento/trento-web:2.5.0-build4.52.1 Image pr_15_6 Image pr_15_7 Image proxy-httpd-image Image proxy-salt-broker-image Image proxy-squid-image Image proxy-ssh-image Image proxy-tftpd-image Image server-attestation-image Image server-hub-xmlrpc-api-image Image server-saline-image Affected
Container private-registry/harbor-db:2.12.2-2.16 Container suse/manager/5.0/x86_64/server-migration-14-16:5.0.4.7.17.1 Container suse/multi-linux-manager/5.1/x86_64/server-migration-14-16:5.1.0.6.27 Container suse/multi-linux-manager/5.1/x86_64/server-postgresql:5.1.2.6.13.1 Container suse/postgres:16.9-13.5 Container suse/postgres:18.1-61.1 Image SLES15-SP6-CHOST-BYOS Image SLES15-SP6-CHOST-BYOS-Aliyun Image SLES15-SP6-CHOST-BYOS-Azure Image SLES15-SP6-CHOST-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP6-CHOST-BYOS-GCE Image SLES15-SP6-CHOST-BYOS-GDC Image SLES15-SP6-CHOST-BYOS-SAP-CCloud Image SLES15-SP7-CHOST-BYOS-Aliyun Image SLES15-SP7-CHOST-BYOS-Azure Image SLES15-SP7-CHOST-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP7-CHOST-BYOS-GCE Image SLES15-SP7-CHOST-BYOS-GDC Image SLES15-SP7-CHOST-BYOS-SAP-CCloud Image server-database-migration-image Image server-migration-14-16-image Image server-postgresql-image Affected
Container rancher/elemental-channel/sl-micro:6.0-baremetal-8.1 Container rancher/elemental-channel/sl-micro:6.0-base-8.1 Container rancher/elemental-channel/sl-micro:6.0-kvm-8.1 Container rancher/elemental-channel/sl-micro:6.0-rt-8.1 Container rancher/elemental-channel/sl-micro:6.1-baremetal-3.4 Container rancher/elemental-channel/sl-micro:6.1-base-3.4 Container rancher/elemental-channel/sl-micro:6.1-kvm-3.4 Container rancher/elemental-channel/sl-micro:6.1-rt-3.4 Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/baremetal-iso-image:2.1.4-6.114 Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/base-iso-image:2.1.4-5.27 Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/kvm-iso-image:2.1.4-6.28 Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/rt-iso-image:2.1.4-6.115 Container suse/sl-micro/6.1/baremetal-iso-image:2.2.0-4.42 Container suse/sl-micro/6.1/base-iso-image:2.2.0-4.42 Container suse/sl-micro/6.1/kvm-iso-image:2.2.0-4.45 Container suse/sl-micro/6.1/rt-iso-image:2.2.0-4.45 Affected
Container suse/hpc/warewulf4-x86_64/sle-hpc-node:15.7.20.5.1 Affected
Container suse/manager/4.3/proxy-httpd:4.3.15.9.63.35 Container suse/manager/4.3/proxy-salt-broker:4.3.15.9.53.43 Container suse/manager/4.3/proxy-squid:4.3.15.9.62.24 Container suse/manager/4.3/proxy-ssh:4.3.15.9.53.24 Container suse/manager/4.3/proxy-tftpd:4.3.15.9.53.25 Affected

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CVE-2025-4802 vulnerability details – vuln.today

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