Ncurses
33 CVEs tracked. None of them is in CISA KEV.
This hub aggregates every CVE we track for Ncurses, a product in the oss libraries space. Use it to gauge the current risk picture and drill into individual advisories.
Ncurses CVEs per month
| Month | CVEs |
|---|---|
| 2024-10 | 0 |
| 2024-11 | 0 |
| 2024-12 | 0 |
| 2025-01 | 0 |
| 2025-02 | 0 |
| 2025-03 | 0 |
| 2025-04 | 0 |
| 2025-05 | 0 |
| 2025-06 | 1 |
| 2025-07 | 0 |
| 2025-08 | 0 |
| 2025-09 | 0 |
| 2025-10 | 1 |
| 2025-11 | 0 |
| 2025-12 | 0 |
| 2026-01 | 0 |
| 2026-02 | 0 |
| 2026-03 | 1 |
| 2026-04 | 0 |
| 2026-05 | 0 |
| 2026-06 | 0 |
| 2026-07 | 0 |
| 2026-08 | 0 |
| 2026-09 | 0 |
Severity
How the 33 CVEs score on CVSS. Severity is not exploitation: KEV is counted above.
- Critical3
- High11
- Medium17
- Low1
Latest CVEs
The 15 most recently published vulnerabilities affecting Ncurses.
- CVE-2025-69720The infocmp command-line tool in ncurses before 6.5-20251213 has a stack-based buffer overflow in analyze_string in progs/infocmp.c.7.3
- GHSA-x77x-7mmh-cxv3ncurses exposes uninitialized memory in string reading functions—
- CVE-2025-6141GNU ncurses parse_entry.c postprocess_termcap stack-based overflow3.3
- CVE-2023-50495NCurse v6.4-20230418 was discovered to contain a segmentation fault via the component _nc_wrap_entry().6.5
- CVE-2020-19186Buffer Overflow vulnerability in _nc_find_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c:66 in ncurses 6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted command.6.5
- CVE-2020-19190Buffer Overflow vulnerability in _nc_find_entry in tinfo/comp_hash.c:70 in ncurses 6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted command.6.5
- CVE-2020-19189Buffer Overflow vulnerability in postprocess_terminfo function in tinfo/parse_entry.c:997 in ncurses 6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted command.6.5
- CVE-2020-19187Buffer Overflow vulnerability in fmt_entry function in progs/dump_entry.c:1100 in ncurses 6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted command.6.5
- CVE-2020-19188Buffer Overflow vulnerability in fmt_entry function in progs/dump_entry.c:1116 in ncurses 6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted command.6.5
- CVE-2020-19185Buffer Overflow vulnerability in one_one_mapping function in progs/dump_entry.c:1373 in ncurses 6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted command.6.5
- CVE-2023-29491ncurses before 6.4 20230408, when used by a setuid application, allows local users to trigger security-relevant memory corruption via malformed data in a terminfo database file that is found in $HO...7.8
- CVE-2022-29458ncurses 6.3 before patch 20220416 has an out-of-bounds read and segmentation violation in convert_strings in tinfo/read_entry.c in the terminfo library.7.1
- CVE-2021-39537An issue was discovered in ncurses through v6.2-1. _nc_captoinfo in captoinfo.c has a heap-based buffer overflow.8.8
- CVE-2019-17594There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the _nc_find_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c in the terminfo library in ncurses before 6.1-20191012.5.3
- CVE-2019-17595There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the fmt_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c in the terminfo library in ncurses before 6.1-20191012.5.4
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