CVE-2025-15281

7.5 highEPSS 0.5%

High (7.5) in gnu glibc. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Calling wordexp with WRDE_REUSE in conjunction with WRDE_APPEND in the GNU C Library version 2.0 to version 2.42 may cause the interface to return uninitialized memory in the we_wordv member, which on subsequent calls to wordfree may abort the process.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.5 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 42% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-908
Published: 2026-01-20
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

gnu:glibc

References

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33814
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/01/20/3

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