Description (CNA)
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.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| Not supplied / Not supplied | affected 0 before 252.37; affected 253.0 before 253.32; affected 254.0 before 254.25; affected 255.0 before 255.19; affected 256.0 before 256.14; affected 257.0 before 257.6 |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 | unaffected 0:257-23.el10 before * |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | unaffected 0:252-55.el9_7.7 before * |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | unaffected 0:252-55.el9_7.7 before * |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Ceph Storage 7 | unaffected 7 before * |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Ceph Storage 8 | unaffected 8 before * |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Ceph Storage 8 | unaffected 1769512383 before * |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Discovery 2 | unaffected 1767888970 before * |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Discovery 2 | unaffected 1767904573 before * |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Insights proxy 1.5 | unaffected 1.5.9-1765201856 before * |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 | unaffected |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 | unaffected |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | unaffected |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | affected |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | affected |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | unaffected |
| Red Hat / Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 | unaffected |
| Red Hat / Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 | affected |
| Red Hat / Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 | unaffected |
CWE
CWE-364
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-2025-4598
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2369242
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/29/3
ADP enrichment
No English description supplied.
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- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/06/05/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/06/05/3
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/18/3
- https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/analysis-of-cve-2025-4598
- https://ciq.com/blog/the-real-danger-of-systemd-coredump-cve-2025-4598/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/07/msg00022.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jun/9
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/18/3
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