CVE-2025-69720

high

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.

References

https://marc.info/?l=ncurses-bug&m=176545557728083&w=2

https://marc.info/?l=ncurses-bug&m=176540731801330&w=2

https://marc.info/?l=ncurses-bug&m=176539968328570&w=2

https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/

https://invisible-island.net/archives/ncurses/6.5/

https://github.com/Cao-Wuhui/CVE-2025-69720

https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-253495.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-03-19

Updated: 2026-06-02

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00018