CVE-2025-15281

Published: Jan 20, 2026Modified: Jun 17, 2026

7.5

Vector

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

Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 3.6

Source: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

Description

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.

Affected (1)

Products: Gnu: Glibc

1 product

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Gnu Glibc	From 2.0 to 2.43

Related CWEs

Use of Uninitialized Resource

The product uses or accesses a resource that has not been initialized.

References (2)

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33814

Source: 3ff69d7a-14f2-4f67-a097-88dee7810d18

Issue TrackingPatch

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/01/20/3

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

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