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Echo: ncurses: security update to 6.5+20250216-2+e4

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 455213

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - The infocmp command-line tool in ncurses before 6.5-20251213 has a stack-based buffer overflow in
 analyze_string in progs/infocmp.c. (CVE-2025-69720)

Solution

Update the ncurses library and its related packages to version 6.5+20250216-2+e4 or later.

See Also

https://advisory.echohq.com/cve/CVE-2025-69720

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 455213

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 10/1/2026

Updated: 10/1/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.55

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-69720

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/22/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/10/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-69720