A flaw was found in util-linux. This vulnerability allows a heap buffer overread when processing 256-byte usernames, specifically within the setpwnam() function, affecting SUID (Set User ID) login-utils utilities writing to the password database.
CVE-2025-14104
Score 6.1 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2025-12-05. NVD baseline CVSS 6.1; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 6.1
- EG Score
- 6.1(medium)
- EPSS
- 7.6%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
December 5, 2025
Last Modified
June 30, 2026
Advisory Details (10)
Auto-updated Jun 25, 2026Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:1913Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:1852Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:1696Vendor Advisories for CVE-2025-14104(7)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHSA-2026:7180Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Hardened Images RPMs bug fix and enhancement update
- RHSA-2026:4943Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Update Infrastructure 5.1 security update
- RHSA-2026:3406Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: New container image: rhceph-9.0
- RHSA-2026:2800Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Ceph Storage
- RHSA-2026:2737Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Ceph Storage
- RHSA-2026:2563Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Update Infrastructure 5 security update
- RHSA-2026:2485Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Insights proxy Container Image
Patch Availability(10)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhat | util-linux-main-2.42-7.1.hum1 | 2026-04-09 | redhat |
| redhat | rhui5/rhua-rhel9:1773670137 | 2026-03-18 | redhat |
| redhat | rhceph/rhceph-9-rhel9:1771816028 | 2026-02-26 | redhat |
| redhat | rhceph/rhceph-7-rhel9:1770632724 | 2026-02-17 | redhat |
| redhat | rhceph/rhceph-8-rhel9:1770630907 | 2026-02-16 | redhat |
| redhat | rhui5/installer-rhel9:1770646925 | 2026-02-11 | redhat |
| redhat | insights-proxy/insights-proxy-container-rhel9:1770740405 | 2026-02-10 | redhat |
| redhat | util-linux-0:2.32.1-48.el8_10 | 2026-02-04 | redhat |
| redhat | util-linux-0:2.37.4-21.el9_7 | 2026-02-04 | redhat |
| redhat | util-linux-0:2.40.2-15.el10_1 | 2026-02-02 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(4)
Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.
- Microsoft MSRCCVE-2025-141042025-12-13
Util-linux: util-linux: heap buffer overread in setpwnam() when processing 256-byte usernames
- Red HatRHSA-2026:1696MODERATE2025-12-05
RHSA-2026:1696 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2026:1852MODERATE2025-12-05
RHSA-2026:1852 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2026:1913MODERATE2025-12-05
RHSA-2026:1913 — Moderate
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 13× in last 7d / 44× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
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- 2026-05-21 03:56 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-05-21 03:56 UTCVendor advisory
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