Vulnerability · 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.
Published May 26, 2025 · catalog updated May 27, 2025 · Gentoo Linux
Check if you run it
No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2025-23395. EPSS is 0.21%. Act only if a listed version of Gentoo Linux is installed.
Gaps on this record
- No version range is stored. A customer cannot check an installed version against this record.
- No vendor fix or required action is stored. Compare the linked advisory before you change production.
- Severity
- High7.3
- Known exploitation
- Not in CISA/VulnCheck KEV
- EPSS
- 0.21%
- Remediation
- Advisory link
- Affected products
- vendor suse
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 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
Are you affected?
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- vendor suseversion unspecified
How to fix CVE-2025-23395
Recommended remediation
A patch or advisory reference is linked. Open the original publisher for availability by product version.
Official advisories
What to do
Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.
Should you patch?
No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2025-23395. EPSS is 0.21%. Act only if a listed version of Gentoo Linux is installed.
Which versions are affected?
Affected version ranges are not on this record. Compare the installed version with the linked vendor advisory before you change production.
What should an analyst verify?
No weakness class is stored. EPSS 0.21%. There is no CISA KEV listing. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.
Code
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No public source repository is identified for this product.
Timeline
Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.
May 27, 2025 · EUVD
Updated
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 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
Oct 17, 2026 · Gentoo GLSA
Detected
CVE-2025-23395 is listed by GNU screen: Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202608-27) — Gentoo security.
Sources
- CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2025-23395
Official CVE identifier
cve.org - FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2025-23395
30-day exploitation probability 0.2%
first.org - EUVDVulnerability recordEUVD-2025-27711
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 ownership, the invoking user's (real) group ownership and file mode 0644. All data wr
euvd.enisa.europa.eu - Gentoo GLSAVendor advisoryCVE-2025-23395
GNU screen: Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202608-27) — Gentoo security
security.gentoo.org
References
Freshness
Last verified in this catalog Oct 18, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.