{"id":59690,"date":"2025-07-27T21:35:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T21:35:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-10-21T04:13:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T10:13:30","slug":"cve-2025-23395-critical-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-in-screen-5-0-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-23395-critical-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-in-screen-5-0-0\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2025-23395: Critical Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Screen 5.0.0<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) system has recently identified a critical security vulnerability, CVE-2025-23395, affecting Screen 5.0.0. This software, when run with setuid-root privileges, fails to drop these elevated privileges while operating on a user-supplied path. This vulnerability holds grave implications for all systems running the affected version of Screen<\/a> as it allows unprivileged users to exploit this flaw and potentially gain root access, thereby compromising the entire system. Given the widespread use of Screen, this vulnerability holds potential<\/a> for extensive damage and is of significant concern to system administrators and cybersecurity professionals alike.<\/p>\n

Vulnerability Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n

CVE ID: CVE-2025-23395
\nSeverity: High (7.8)
\nAttack Vector: Local
\nPrivileges Required: Low
\nUser Interaction: Required
\nImpact: System compromise<\/a>, data leakage<\/p>\n

Affected Products<\/strong><\/p>

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\r\n \r\n \"Ameeba\r\n <\/a>\r\n Share secrets securely\r\n <\/h2>\r\n\r\n

\r\n Ameeba is private infrastructure for communication and sensitive work built on encrypted identity instead of exposed corporate identity systems.\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n

\r\n Passwords, credentials, confidential files, screenshots, internal discussions, sensitive AI context, and private coordination should not become exposed across ordinary communication platforms.\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n