CVE-2025-46803 (GCVE-0-2025-46803)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-26 15:06 – Updated: 2025-05-27 14:12
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Screen creates by default world-writable PTYs
Summary
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.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-05-27 14:12 UTC
CWE
- CWE-276 - Incorrect Default Permissions
Assigner
References
Date Public
2025-02-12 16:24
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