HIGH 8.4 Microsoft
CVE-2025-4802
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).
Microsoft Security Update 2025-May: 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).
Affected Products
- cbl2 glibc 2.35-7 on CBL Mariner 2.0
- azl3 glibc 2.38-11 on Azure Linux 3.0
- azl3 glibc 2.38-12 on Azure Linux 3.0
- cbl2 glibc 2.35-9 on CBL Mariner 2.0
- cbl2 glibc 2.35-10 on CBL Mariner 2.0
References
- https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-4802
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-4802
This high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 8.4 was published on 2025-05-13 via Microsoft. Affected: cbl2 glibc 2.35-7 on CBL Mariner 2.0, azl3 glibc 2.38-11 on Azure Linux 3.0, azl3 glibc 2.38-12 on Azure Linux 3.0 and 2 more.
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