Security advisory

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  "id": "a10cedae82251ff194c3340210377c30089bacfb30c0e381e78f5b020cae3faa",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-4802",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2025-4802",
    "summary": "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).",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2025-4802",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
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      "aliases": [
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
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              "repo": "https://github.com/bminor/glibc",
              "type": "GIT",
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                {
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            "glibc-2.37.9000",
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            "glibc-2.34",
            "glibc-2.34.9000",
            "glibc-2.33",
            "glibc-2.33.9000",
            "glibc-2.32",
            "glibc-2.32.9000",
            "glibc-2.31",
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            "changelog-ends-here",
            "glibc-2.30",
            "glibc-2.30.9000",
            "glibc-2.29",
            "glibc-2.29.9000",
            "glibc-2.28",
            "glibc-2.28.9000",
            "glibc-2.27",
            "glibc-2.27.9000"
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          }
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            "glibc-2.37",
            "glibc-2.37.9000",
            "glibc-2.36",
            "glibc-2.36.9000",
            "glibc-2.35",
            "glibc-2.35.9000",
            "glibc-2.34",
            "glibc-2.34.9000",
            "glibc-2.33",
            "glibc-2.33.9000",
            "glibc-2.32",
            "glibc-2.32.9000",
            "glibc-2.31",
            "glibc-2.31.9000",
            "changelog-ends-here",
            "glibc-2.30",
            "glibc-2.30.9000",
            "glibc-2.29",
            "glibc-2.29.9000",
            "glibc-2.28",
            "glibc-2.28.9000",
            "glibc-2.27",
            "glibc-2.27.9000"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
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          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:28.108812950Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00033.html",
        "https://sourceware.org/cgit/glibc/commit/?id=1e18586c5820e329f741d5c710275e165581380e",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/4xxx/CVE-2025-4802.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-4802",
        "https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32976"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cwe_ids": [
          "CWE-426"
        ],
        "cna_assigner": "glibc",
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "2.27"
                  },
                  {
                    "fixed": "2.39"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
                "strategy": "StandardRange"
              }
            ]
          }
        ],
        "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/4xxx/CVE-2025-4802.json"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2025-4802",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 494902,
  "published_at": "2025-05-16T19:32:50.586+00:00"
}