CVE-2025-4802

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-4802
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-4802.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-4802
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-05-16T19:32:50.586Z
Modified
2026-07-15T01:49:12.435685203Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Untrusted LDLIBRARYPATH 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).

Database specific 
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/4xxx/CVE-2025-4802.json",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-426"
    ],
    "cna_assigner": "glibc",
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "2.27"
                },
                {
                    "fixed": "2.39"
                }
            ],
            "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/bminor/glibc

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/bminor/glibc
Events
Introduced
23158b08a0908f381459f273a984c6fd328363cb
Last affected
36f2487f13e3540be9ee0fb51876b1da72176d3f
Database specific 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "2.27"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.38"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_RANGE",
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
}

Affected versions

Other
changelog-ends-here
glibc-2.*
glibc-2.27
glibc-2.27.9000
glibc-2.28
glibc-2.28.9000
glibc-2.29
glibc-2.29.9000
glibc-2.30
glibc-2.30.9000
glibc-2.31
glibc-2.31.9000
glibc-2.32
glibc-2.32.9000
glibc-2.33
glibc-2.33.9000
glibc-2.34
glibc-2.34.9000
glibc-2.35
glibc-2.35.9000
glibc-2.36
glibc-2.36.9000
glibc-2.37
glibc-2.37.9000
glibc-2.38

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-4802.json"

Git / sourceware.org/git/glibc.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://sourceware.org/git/glibc.git
Events
Introduced
23158b08a0908f381459f273a984c6fd328363cb
Last affected
36f2487f13e3540be9ee0fb51876b1da72176d3f
Database specific 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "2.27"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.38"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_RANGE",
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
}

Affected versions

Other
changelog-ends-here
glibc-2.*
glibc-2.27
glibc-2.27.9000
glibc-2.28
glibc-2.28.9000
glibc-2.29
glibc-2.29.9000
glibc-2.30
glibc-2.30.9000
glibc-2.31
glibc-2.31.9000
glibc-2.32
glibc-2.32.9000
glibc-2.33
glibc-2.33.9000
glibc-2.34
glibc-2.34.9000
glibc-2.35
glibc-2.35.9000
glibc-2.36
glibc-2.36.9000
glibc-2.37
glibc-2.37.9000
glibc-2.38

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-4802.json"