CVE-2025-46805

Screen version 5.0.0 and older version 4 releases have a TOCTOU race potentially allowing to send SIGHUP, SIGCONT to privileged processes when installed setuid-root.

CVSS v3 5.5 MEDIUM

5.5^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 1.8 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2025-46805
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/12/1

Configurations

No configuration.

History

28 May 2025, 15:01

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2025-05-26 14:15

Updated : 2025-05-28 15:01

NVD link : CVE-2025-46805

Mitre link : CVE-2025-46805

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-46805

JSON object : View

Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-367

Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

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