CVE-2025-46804

Screen 5.0.0 and older versions allow file existence tests when installed setuid-root

CVSS 2 LOWEPSS 0.2%CWE-203

Vexday Risk Score

8Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 2EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

26 May 2025Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

A minor information leak when running Screen with setuid-root privileges allows unprivileged users to deduce information about a path that would otherwise not be available. Affected are older Screen versions, as well as version 5.0.0.

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected products

screen

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References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2025-46804 https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/12/1