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.

Metrics

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Attack Requirements Present

User Interaction None

Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact Low

Vulnerable System Integrity Impact None

Vulnerable System Availability Impact None

Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact None

Subsequent System Integrity Impact None

Subsequent System Availability Impact None

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Affected Vendors & Products

Vendors Products
Gnu
  • Screen

No data.

No data.

References
Link Providers
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2025-46804 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-46804 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-46804 cve-icon
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/12/1 cve-icon cve-icon
History

Tue, 27 May 2025 14:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Tue, 27 May 2025 08:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description A minor information leak when running Screen with setuid-root privileges allosw 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. 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.

Mon, 26 May 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description A flaw was found in Screen. It generates an error message that allows unprivileged users to deduce information about a path that should not be accessible. A minor information leak when running Screen with setuid-root privileges allosw 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.
Title screen: File Existence Tests via Socket Lookup Error Messages Screen 5.0.0 and older versions allow file existence tests when installed setuid-root
Weaknesses CWE-203
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 2, 'vector': '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'}

Fri, 16 May 2025 02:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description No description is available for this CVE. A flaw was found in Screen. It generates an error message that allows unprivileged users to deduce information about a path that should not be accessible.

Wed, 14 May 2025 02:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description No description is available for this CVE.
Title screen: File Existence Tests via Socket Lookup Error Messages
Weaknesses CWE-497
References
Metrics threat_severity

None

 cvssV3_1

{'score': 3.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N'}

threat_severity

Low
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: suse

Published: 2025-05-26T13:31:17.792Z

Updated: 2025-05-28T13:48:38.991Z

Reserved: 2025-04-30T11:28:04.728Z

Link: CVE-2025-46804

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-05-27T14:06:57.604Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-05-26T14:15:19.850

Modified: 2025-05-28T15:01:30.720

Link: CVE-2025-46804

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2025-05-12T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2025-46804 - Bugzilla