Critical (9.8) in gnu glibc. EPSS 3.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
The GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.27 contains an off-by-one error leading to a heap-based buffer overflow in the glob function in glob.c, related to the processing of home directories using the ~ operator followed by a long string.
Severity
CVSS 3.0
9.8 critical
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
3.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 87% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)