CVE-2025-46802 (GCVE-0-2025-46802)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-05-26 15:10
Modified
2025-05-27 14:11
Severity ?
6.0 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Summary
For a short time they PTY is set to mode 666, allowing any user on the system to connect to the screen session.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 Version: ?   < 4.6.2-150000.5.8.1
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