Critical severity · published Aug 26, 2019
CVE-2019-15548
An issue was discovered in the ncurses crate through 5.99.0 for Rust
9.8
CVSS
1.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in the ncurses crate through 5.99.0 for Rust. There are instr and mvwinstr buffer overflows because interaction with C functions is mishandled.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.6% · higher than 76% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
NC
Ncurses · Ncurses Project
through 5.99.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-15548
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-15548
Vendor Advisory
https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2019-0006.html
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