What is CVE-2025-46805?

CVE-2025-46805 is a medium-severity vulnerability, classified under Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2025-05-26.

How severe is CVE-2025-46805?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

CVE-2025-46805

CVE-2025-46805

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.

Vulnerability class: TOCTOU (Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use)

EPSS: 0.002 (6.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-367 — Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

References

meissner@suse.de
meissner@suse.de

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-46805?: CVE-2025-46805 is a medium-severity vulnerability, classified under Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2025-05-26.
How severe is CVE-2025-46805?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.