CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2025-15281

Use of Uninitialized Resource

Published: Jan 20, 2026 | Modified: Jan 20, 2026

CVSS 3.x

N/A

Source:

NVD

CVSS 2.x

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

5.9 LOW

Ubuntu

MEDIUM

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Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-15281
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/908.html

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.

Weakness

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

Potential Mitigations

References

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