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GHSA-q5m3-4jcg-c4rf

GitHub Security Advisory

⚠ Unreviewed HIGH Has CVE

Advisory Details

elf/dl-load.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.19 through 2.26 mishandles RPATH and RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN for a privileged (setuid or AT_SECURE) program, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse library in the current working directory, related to the fillin_rpath and decompose_rpath functions. This is associated with misinterpretion of an empty RPATH/RUNPATH token as the "./" directory. NOTE: this configuration of RPATH/RUNPATH for a privileged program is apparently very uncommon; most likely, no such program is shipped with any common Linux distribution.

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Key Information

GHSA ID
GHSA-q5m3-4jcg-c4rf
Published
May 13, 2022 1:14 AM
Last Modified
May 13, 2022 1:14 AM
CVSS Score
7.5 /10
Primary Ecosystem
Unknown
Primary Package
Unknown
GitHub Reviewed
✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: August 30, 2025 6:32 AM

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