CVE-2025-46803

high

Published — · Modified —

CVSS v3

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VIR risk

8.0

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
arch		fixed	`5.0.0-3`
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`0`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`0`
debian	forky	fixed	`0`
debian	sid	fixed	`0`
debian	trixie	fixed	`0`

References

https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202505-1
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-46803.html
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-46803

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

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