CVE Alert: CVE-2025-23395
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2025-23395
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
Affected Endpoints:
No affected endpoints listed.
Published Date:
5/26/2025, 4:15:20 PM
🔥 CVSS Score:
Exploit Status:
Not ExploitedReferences:
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2025-23395
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/12/1
Recommended Action:
No proposed action available. Please refer to vendor documentation for updates.
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