CVE-2025-46803

May 27, 2025, 3:15 p.m.

5.1
Medium

Description

The default mode of pseudo terminals (PTYs) allocated by Screen was changed from 0620 to 0622, thereby allowing anyone to write to any Screen PTYs in the system.

Product(s) Impacted

Vendor Product Versions
Screen
  • Screen
  • *

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-276
Incorrect Default Permissions
During installation, installed file permissions are set to allow anyone to modify those files.

*CPE(s)

Affected systems and software identified for this CVE.

Type Vendor Product Version Update Edition Language Software Edition Target Software Target Hardware Other Information
a screen screen / / / / / / / /

References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2025-46803
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/12/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/13/6
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/12/1

Tags

CWE-276
meissner@suse.de
2025-05-26
CVE-2025-46803

CVSS Score

5.1 / 10

CVSS Data - 4.0

  • Attack Vector: LOCAL
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Attack Requirements: NONE
  • Privileges Required: LOW
  • User Interaction: ACTIVE
  • Scope:
  • Confidentiality Impact: NONE
  • Integrity Impact: HIGH
  • Availability Impact: NONE
  • Exploit Maturity: NOT_DEFINED

    • CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

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Timeline

Published: May 26, 2025, 3:15 p.m.
Last Modified: May 27, 2025, 3:15 p.m.

Status : Received

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

meissner@suse.de

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