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high 7.5

CVE-2019-15547 json

Mishandling of format strings in ncurses

published 7y ago modified 4mo ago also CVE-2019-15548 , GHSA-32v7-ghpr-c8hg , GHSA-g7r5-x7cr-vm3v , RUSTSEC-2019-0006 , EUVD-2021-1524

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.2%
EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 69%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in the ncurses crate through 5.99.0 for Rust. There are format string issues in printw functions because C format arguments are mishandled.

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Exploit prediction

1.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 69% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 6.4 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
GitHub 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
crates.io ncurses
<=5.101.0
>=0.0.0-0
 no fix listed

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-134 Use of Externally-Controlled Format String
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

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