CVE-2025-15281 Affecting glibc package, versions <2.31-0ubuntu9.18+esm1


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.44% (36th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-GLIBC-15051739
  • published4 Feb 2026
  • disclosed20 Jan 2026

Introduced: 20 Jan 2026

CVE-2025-15281  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:20.04 glibc to version 2.31-0ubuntu9.18+esm1 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 Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:20.04 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