Name: CVE-2025-46803: Incorrect Default Permissions
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2025-05-26T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2025-46803, CVSS 5, EPSS 0.00016

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.

CVSS Details

CVSS 4.0 Base Score: 5.1 (MEDIUM)
CVSS 4.0 Vector: (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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X)
CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 5
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Alpine Linux	—	Upgrade screen	Aug 8, 2025	May 26, 2025
Arch Linux	—	Upgrade to the latest version of Arch Linux	Jul 11, 2025	May 26, 2025
Freebsd	—	Upgrade screen	Dec 10, 2025	May 21, 2025
Gentoo Linux	—	Upgrade app-misc/screen.	Aug 26, 2026	Aug 26, 2026
Redhat_linux	—	No solution exists	Jul 9, 2025	May 26, 2025

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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