vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2025-46804: screen -- security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
May 15, 2025
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

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.

Solution

no-fix-debian-deb-package
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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