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Alpine: multiple screen packages: security update to 4.9.1_git20250512-r0
medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 425968
Description
There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:- For a short time they PTY is set to mode 666, allowing any user on the system to connect to the screen
session. (CVE-2025-46802)
- A minor information leak when running Screen with setuid-root privileges allows unprivileged users to
deduce information about a path that would otherwise not be available. Affected are older Screen versions,
as well as version 5.0.0. (CVE-2025-46804)
- 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. (CVE-2025-46805)
See Also
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2025-46802
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 425968
Version: Revision 1.8
Type: Local
Published: 5/14/2025
Updated: 7/2/2026
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 5
Percentile: 94.59
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.5
Temporal Score: 5.5
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-46805
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6
Temporal Score: 5.2
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-46802
CVSS v4
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.7
Threat Score: 1.9
Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U
Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Vulnerability Information
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available