CVE-2025-46802

Temporary chown() of users' TTY to mode 0666 allows PTY hijacking in screen

State: Published
Severity: 5.3 Medium
Published: May 26, 2025
Updated: May 27, 2025
Reserved: Apr 30, 2025

Description

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

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	5.3 Medium	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	suse
3.1	6.0 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N	suse

Weaknesses

CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

Affected Products

Product	Versions
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3SUSE	? to before 4.6.2-150000.5.8.1Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4SUSE	? to before 4.6.2-150000.5.8.1Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5SUSE	? to before 4.6.2-150000.5.8.1Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP6SUSE	? to before 4.6.2-150000.5.8.1Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6SUSE	? to before 4.6.2-150000.5.8.1Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6SUSE	? to before 4.6.2-150000.5.8.1Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6SUSE	? to before 4.6.2-150000.5.8.1Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP6SUSE	? to before 4.6.2-150000.5.8.1Affected

References

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