CVE-2025-46802

Publication date 8 May 2025

Last updated 3 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

For a short time they PTY is set to mode 666, allowing any user on the system to connect to the screen session.

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
screen	25.04 plucky	Needs evaluation
	24.10 oracular	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	24.04 LTS noble	Needs evaluation
	22.04 LTS jammy	Needs evaluation
	20.04 LTS focal	Needs evaluation
	18.04 LTS bionic	Needs evaluation
	16.04 LTS xenial	Needs evaluation
	14.04 LTS trusty	Needs evaluation

This CVE also affects older versions, not just 5.0.0 The commit listed below may introduce a regression, see oss-security post

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
screen	Upstream: ?id=049