Medium severity · published May 30, 2025
CVE-2025-4598
Systemd-coredump: race condition that allows a local attacker to crash a suid program and gain read access to the resulting core dump
4.7
CVSS
1.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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 vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
High
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.3% · higher than 70% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
KE
Kernel · Linux
before 6.16 · source: NVD
RH
Red Hat Ceph Storage 7 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Ceph Storage 8 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Discovery 2 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Insights proxy 1.5 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
11.0; 12.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux · Redhat
7.0; 8.0; 9.0; 10.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-4598
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-4598
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:22660
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:22868
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:23227
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:23234
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:0414
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:1652
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