CVE-2025-15281 Affecting glibc package, versions <2.42-r7


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (21st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-GLIBC-15102737
  • published27 Jan 2026
  • disclosed20 Jan 2026

Introduced: 20 Jan 2026

CVE-2025-15281  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Chainguard glibc to version 2.42-r7 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glibc package and not the glibc package as distributed by Chainguard. See How to fix? for Chainguard relevant fixed versions and status.

Calling wordexp with WRDE_REUSE in conjunction with WRDE_APPEND in the GNU C Library version 2.0 to version 2.42 may cause the interface to return uninitialized memory in the we_wordv member, which on subsequent calls to wordfree may abort the process.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1