CVE-2025-69720
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.3 High
- Published
- Mar 19, 2026
- Updated
- Jun 2, 2026
- Reserved
- Jan 9, 2026
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.3 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L | mitre |
| 3.1 | 9.8 Critical | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | CISA-ADP |
Weaknesses
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
ncursesGNU |
|
References
- https://marc.info/?l=ncurses-bug&m=176539968328570&w=2
- https://marc.info/?l=ncurses-bug&m=176540731801330&w=2
- https://marc.info/?l=ncurses-bug&m=176545557728083&w=2
- https://github.com/Cao-Wuhui/CVE-2025-69720
- https://invisible-island.net/archives/ncurses/6.5/
- https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-253495.html
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