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High 7.8Published Mar 19, 2026
CVE-2025-69720The infocmp command-line tool in ncurses before 6.5-20251213 has a stack-based buffer overflow in analyze_string in progs/infocmp.c.
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The infocmp command-line tool in ncurses before 6.5-20251213 has a stack-based buffer overflow in analyze_string in progs/infocmp.c.
- CVSS
- 7.8 HIGH (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-121, CWE-120
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- Not given
- NVD analysis
- Modified
- Record last updated
- Jun 17, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
invisible-island ncurses invisible-island:ncurses | through 6.4; 6.5; 6.5; 6.5; 6.5; 6.5; 6.5; 6.5; and 74 more ranges | NVD |
References
- https://github.com/Cao-Wuhui/CVE-2025-69720exploit, third-party-advisory
- https://invisible-island.net/archives/ncurses/6.5/release-notes
- https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/product
- https://marc.info/?l=ncurses-bug&m=176539968328570&w=2issue-tracking, mailing-list, vendor-advisory
- https://marc.info/?l=ncurses-bug&m=176540731801330&w=2issue-tracking, mailing-list, vendor-advisory
- https://marc.info/?l=ncurses-bug&m=176545557728083&w=2issue-tracking, mailing-list, vendor-advisory
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-253495.html
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