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High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published May 26, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2025-23395

CVE-2025-23395

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

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