CVE-2025-15281

low Red Hat
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.9
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
0.1%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 84% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Published: January 20, 2026 (114 days ago)
Last Modified: January 20, 2026
Vendor: Red Hat
Fix Available: ✓ Yes

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.

CWE

CWE-908

Affected Products

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Cost Management 4

Fix Status

✅ Fix Available

References

🔗 bugzilla.redhat.com 🔗 www.cve.org 🔗 nvd.nist.gov 🔗 sourceware.org