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Vulnerability details: VCID-52m3-cg57-ubh9
Vulnerability ID VCID-52m3-cg57-ubh9
Aliases CVE-2017-5618
Summary GNU screen before 4.5.1 allows local users to modify arbitrary files and consequently gain root privileges by leveraging improper checking of logfile permissions.
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (0)
There are no known CWE.
System Score Found at
cvssv3 7.0 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2017-5618.json
epss 0.02292 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-5618
epss 0.02292 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-5618
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2017-5618.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-5618
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5618
1416704 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1416704
852484 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=852484
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2017-5618.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.85015
EPSS Score 0.02292
Published At June 4, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-06-04T17:10:48.989236+00:00 Debian Importer Import https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/data/json 38.6.0