CVE-2025-23395

Severity CVSS v4.0:
HIGH
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
26/05/2025
Last modified:
28/05/2025

Description

Screen 5.0.0 when it runs with setuid-root privileges does not drop privileges while operating on a user supplied path. This allows unprivileged users to create files in arbitrary locations with `root` ownership, the invoking user's (real) group ownership and file mode 0644. All data written to the Screen PTY will be logged into this file, allowing to escalate to root privileges