CVE-2025-46805

5.7 mediumEPSS 0.2%

Medium (5.7). EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Screen version 5.0.0 and older version 4 releases have a TOCTOU race potentially allowing to send SIGHUP, SIGCONT to privileged processes when installed setuid-root.

Severity

CVSS 4.0

5.7 medium

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS 3.1

5.5 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 7% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-367
Published: 2025-05-26
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2025-46805
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/12/1

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