# CVE-2025-0577: Glibc: vdso getrandom acceleration may return predictable randomness

- Severity: CVSS 4.8 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-02-18 · Updated: 2026-02-25

## Affected

- glibc: from 2.39-28.fc40, through 2.39-33.fc40; from 2.40-12.fc41, through 2.40-17.fc41
- glibc: version range not reported
- glibc: version range not reported
- glibc: version range not reported
- glibc: version range not reported
- glibc: version range not reported

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on glibc, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-0577
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2338871

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