CVE-2025-69720

critical

Description

ncurses v6.5 and v6.4 are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow in progs/infocmp.c, function analyze_string().

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-03-19

Updated: 2026-03-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00018