CVE-2025-4598
A vulnerability was found in systemd-coredump.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.79%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 4.7 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.79% probability · 54th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-364
- Affected
- systemd project/systemd · redhat/openshift container platform · redhat/enterprise linux · debian/debian linux · oracle/linux · linux/linux kernel
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:22660
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:22868
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:23227
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:23234
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:0414
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:1652
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:18153
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-4598Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2369242Issue Tracking
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/29/3Mailing List
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jun/9
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/06/05/1Mailing List
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/06/05/3Mailing List
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/18/3
- https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/analysis-of-cve-2025-4598Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://ciq.com/blog/the-real-danger-of-systemd-coredump-cve-2025-4598/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/07/msg00022.html
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/18/3Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-082556.html
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.