What the vulnerability does

01Description

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).

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

May 16, 2025 CVE published
February 26, 2026 Record updated