CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-69720
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-03-19
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.3 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-120, CWE-121
Description
The infocmp command-line tool in ncurses before 6.5-20251213 has a stack-based buffer overflow in analyze_string in progs/infocmp.c.
Affected configurations
• invisible-island ncurses (<= 6.4)
• invisible-island ncurses 6.5
Related
References
- https://github.com/Cao-Wuhui/CVE-2025-69720 Exploit, 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=2 Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
- https://marc.info/?l=ncurses-bug&m=176540731801330&w=2 Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
- https://marc.info/?l=ncurses-bug&m=176545557728083&w=2 Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-253495.html cert-portal.siemens.com