CVE-2026-6368

2.1 lowEPSS 0.1%

Low (2.1). EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Calling wordexp with WRDE_APPEND in the GNU C Library version 2.0 to version 2.43 can cause the interface to return invalid memory in the we_wordv member, which on subsequent calls to wordfree may abort the process.

Severity

CVSS 4.0

2.1 low

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L/S:P/AU:Y/U:Green

EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 1% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-908
Published: 2026-08-10
Modified: 2026-09-03
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34090
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=advisories/GLIBC-SA-2026-0014;h=1e9a0039f07471ddfe6816e5df04875bec409f92;hb=HEAD

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