CVE intelligence

CVE-2025-4802

Vulnerability intelligence

Published May 16, 2025Sources checked Nov 12, 2026

7.8HIGHCVSS out of 10

What this means

Review the available evidence

CVE-2025-4802 and is rated High severity with a CVSS score of 7.8. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.

What to do next

Remediation and response

Microsoft Security Response Center guidance

Vendor revision: Sep 25, 2026

CBL-Mariner Releases Release Notes

Vendor-listed releases

2.35-8
2.38-12

CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog

EPSS0.6%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability

Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field

Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships

Overview

What is 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).

Source: NVD