CVE-2026-6368CWE-908

CVE-2026-6368

published August 10, 2026

CVSS
2.1
EPSS
0%
Percentile
1.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Calling wordexp with WRDE_APPEND in the GNU C Library version 2.0 to version 2.43 can cause the interface to return invalid memory in the we_wordv member, which on subsequent calls to wordfree may abort the process.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
2.1 · NONE
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00107 · 1.1th percentile
Weakness
CWE-908 · Use of Uninitialized Resource
Published
2026-08-10T23:17Z
References (2)
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34090 · 3ff69d7a-14f2-4f67-a097-88dee7810d18https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=advisories/GLIBC-SA-2026-0014;h=1e9a0039f07471ddfe6816e5df04875bec409f92;hb=HEAD · 3ff69d7a-14f2-4f67-a097-88dee7810d18
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 10 AUG 18:40Z
    wordexp with WRDE_APPEND can return or use invalid memory
    cvelistv5