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Status published
Medium
CVE-2025-46805
Screen has a TOCTOU race potentially allowing to send SIGHUP, SIGCONT to privileged processes when installed setuid-root
Vulnerability Description
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.
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
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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:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H