CVE-2025-46805

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v4 NEW
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.0

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
Affected
debian Debian Mixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 4.9.1-3
sid Fixed 4.9.1-3
forky Fixed 4.9.1-3
bullseye Affected
bookworm Affected
arch Arch Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
Fixed 5.0.0-3

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.