CVE-2025-4802

Publication date 16 May 2025

Last updated 30 May 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.8 · High

Score breakdown

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).

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
eglibc 25.04 plucky Not in release
24.10 oracular Not in release
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected
glibc 25.04 plucky
Not affected
24.10 oracular
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 2.35-0ubuntu3.10
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 2.31-0ubuntu9.18
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 2.27-3ubuntu1.6+esm5
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected

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Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.8 · High
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H