CVE-2025-46804: low-severity vulnerability in screen
Screen 5.0.0 and older versions allow file existence tests when installed setuid-root
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8Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 2epss 0.2%
A minor information leak when running Screen with setuid-root privileges allows unprivileged users to deduce information about a path that would otherwise not be available.
Affected are older Screen versions, as well as version 5.0.0.
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
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CVE-2025-46803MEDIUMScreen creates by default world-writable PTYsEPSS 0.3%CVE-2025-23395HIGHLocal root exploit via `logfile_reopen()` in screen 5.0.0 with setuid-root bit setEPSS 0.3%CVE-2025-46805MEDIUMScreen has a TOCTOU race potentially allowing to send SIGHUP, SIGCONT to privileged processes when installed setuid-rootEPSS 0.2%