Untrusted Search Path Affecting glibc package, versions [2.27,2.39)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GLIBC-10247364
  • published26 May 2025
  • disclosed16 May 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 May 2025

NewCVE-2025-4802  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-426  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade glibc to version 2.39 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Untrusted Search Path due to the improper handling of the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. An attacker can control the loading of dynamically shared libraries in statically compiled setuid binaries that invoke dlopen, including those that make internal calls after setlocale or to NSS functions such as getaddrinfo.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1