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CVE-2025-4598 Detail

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.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/06/05/1 CVE Mailing List 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/06/05/3 CVE Mailing List 
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-4598 Red Hat, Inc. Vendor Advisory 
https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/analysis-of-cve-2025-4598 CVE Exploit  Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2369242 Red Hat, Inc. Issue Tracking 
https://ciq.com/blog/the-real-danger-of-systemd-coredump-cve-2025-4598/ CVE Exploit  Third Party Advisory 
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/29/3 Red Hat, Inc. Mailing List 
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/18/3 CVE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-364 Signal Handler Race Condition Red Hat, Inc.  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2025-4598
NVD Published Date:
05/30/2025
NVD Last Modified:
08/27/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.