CVE-2025-46802

Temporary chown() of users' TTY to mode 0666 allows PTY hijacking in screen

CVSS 5.3 MEDIUMEPSS 0.2%CWE-732

For a short time they PTY is set to mode 666, allowing any user on the system to connect to the screen session.

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected products

SUSE · SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6 SUSE · SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP6 SUSE · SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 SUSE · SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4 SUSE · SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5 SUSE · SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP6 SUSE · SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 SUSE · SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6

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References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2025-46802 https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/12/1