CVE-2025-46803 (GCVE-0-2025-46803)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-26 15:06 – Updated: 2025-05-27 14:12
VLAI?
Title
Screen creates by default world-writable PTYs
Summary
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.
Severity ?
5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
5.1 (Medium)
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
CWE
  • CWE-276 - Incorrect Default Permissions
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Affected: 5.0 , ≤ 5.0.0 (semver)
Credits
Matthias Gerstner, SUSE
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