CVE-2025-46803 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2025-46803

Screen creates by default world-writable PTYs

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • Matthias Gerstner, SUSE

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Unknown
Vulnerable Versions:
5.0

Timeline

Official Publish: May 26th, 2025
Last Modified: May 27th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)