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Total vulnerabilities in the database

CVE-2025-15281

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.

  • Published: Jan 20, 2026
  • Updated: Jan 23, 2026
  • CVE: CVE-2025-15281
  • Severity: High
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: High
  • Score: 7.5
  • AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
gnu / glibc 2.0 2.43