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CVE-2025-46803

Screen creates by default world-writable PTYs



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.

Reserved 2025-04-30 | Published 2025-05-26 | Updated 2025-05-27 | Assigner suse


MEDIUM: 5.0CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

MEDIUM: 5.1CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Problem types

CWE-276: Incorrect Default Permissions

Product status

Default status
unaffected

5.0
affected

Credits

Matthias Gerstner, SUSE finder

References

bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2025-46803

www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/12/1

cve.org (CVE-2025-46803)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-46803)

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