Argument Injection Affecting screen package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team. Learn more

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.33% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SCREEN-2319398
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed9 Feb 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Feb 2021

CVE-2021-26937  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-88  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for screen.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Argument Injection encoding.c in GNU Screen through 4.8.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid write access and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted UTF-8 character sequence.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1