Medium

Systemd-coredump: race condition that allows a local attacker to crash a suid program and gain read access to the resulting core dump

Type: advisorySource: Official CVE List1 source record

A vulnerability was found in systemd-coredump. This flaw allows an attacker to force a SUID process to crash and replace it with a non-SUID binary to access the original's privileged process coredump, allowing the attacker to read sensitive data, such as /etc/shadow content, loaded by the original process. A SUID binary or process has a special type of permission, which allows the process to run with the file owner's permissions, regardless of the user executing the binary. This allows the process to access more restricted data than unprivileged users or processes would be able to. An attacker can leverage this flaw by forcing a SUID process to crash and force the Linux kernel to recycle the process PID before systemd-coredump can analyze the /proc/pid/auxv file. If the attacker wins the race condition, they gain access to the original's SUID process coredump file. They can read sensitive content loaded into memory by the original binary, affecting data confidentiality.

Announced 30 May 2025Source revision 1

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CVE-2025-4598

Primary source · Revision 1

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Security context

Source reference: cve:CVE-2025-4598

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

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Red Hat Ceph Storage 7

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Red Hat Ceph Storage 8

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Red Hat Discovery 2

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Red Hat Discovery 2

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Red Hat Insights proxy 1.5

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

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Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4

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Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4

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Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4

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Structured affected-version data

Original package identities and version rules from this source.

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Related CVEs: CVE-2025-4598
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Publisher severity

medium

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Event: #27092 · Revision 1
Added to Heist Feed: Sun, 25 Oct 2026 07:20:01 GMT
Publisher date: Fri, 30 May 2025 13:13:26 GMT

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