CVE-2025-4598 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2025-4598

Systemd-coredump: race condition that allows a local attacker to crash a suid program and gain read access to the resulting core dump

Vulnerability Description

A vulnerability was found in systemd-coredump. This flaw allows an attacker to force a SUID process to crash and replace it with a non-SUID binary to access the original's privileged process coredump, allowing the attacker to read sensitive data, such as /etc/shadow content, loaded by the original process. A SUID binary or process has a special type of permission, which allows the process to run with the file owner's permissions, regardless of the user executing the binary. This allows the process to access more restricted data than unprivileged users or processes would be able to. An attacker can leverage this flaw by forcing a SUID process to crash and force the Linux kernel to recycle the process PID before systemd-coredump can analyze the /proc/pid/auxv file. If the attacker wins the race condition, they gain access to the original's SUID process coredump file. They can read sensitive content loaded into memory by the original binary, affecting data confidentiality.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, Red Hat Ceph Storage 7, Red Hat Ceph Storage 8, Red Hat Discovery 2, Red Hat Insights proxy 1.5, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 253.0, 254.0, 255.0, 256.0, 257.0, 0:257-23.el10, 0:252-55.el9_7.7, 7, 8, 1769512383, 1767888970, 1767904573, 1.5.9-1765201856

Timeline

Official Publish: May 30th, 2025
Last Modified: July 14th, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-364

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.