CVE-2025-0577
glibc: vDSO getrandom acceleration may return predictable randomness
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · January 24, 2025
Updated · June 30, 2026
Description
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.
Statement
This flaw only affected a limited subset of glibc versions present in Fedora 40 (glibc-2.39-28.fc40 and glibc-2.39-33.fc40), Fedora 41 (glibc-2.40-12.fc41 and glibc-2.40-17.fc41) and CentOS 10 Stream (glibc-2.39-29.el10 to glibc-2.39-33.el10).
CVSS score applicability
The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.
Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 4.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE-331 · Insufficient Entropy