CVE-2025-0577 (GCVE-0-2025-0577)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-18 20:25 – Updated: 2026-02-25 16:54
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Glibc: vdso getrandom acceleration may return predictable randomness
Summary
An insufficient entropy vulnerability was found in glibc. The getrandom and arc4random family of functions may return predictable randomness if these functions are called again after the fork, which happens concurrently with a call to any of these functions.
Severity
4.8 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-02-25 16:53 UTC
CWE
- CWE-331 - Insufficient Entropy
Assigner
References
2 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-0577 | vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2338871 | issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT |
Impacted products
6 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Affected:
2.39-28.fc40 , ≤ 2.39-33.fc40
(semver)
Affected: 2.40-12.fc41 , ≤ 2.40-17.fc41 (semver) |
||||
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 |
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10
|
||
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 |
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
|
||
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 |
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
|
||
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 |
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
|
||
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 |
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
|
Date Public
2025-01-23 22:40
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