CVE-2025-69720

HIGH

GNU ncurses <6.5-20251213 - Buffer Overflow

Title source: llm

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.

Exploits (1)

nomisec WRITEUP
by Cao-Wuhui · poc
https://github.com/Cao-Wuhui/CVE-2025-69720

References (6)

Scores

CVSS v3 7.3
EPSS 0.0001
EPSS Percentile 0.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L

Details

CWE
CWE-120 CWE-121
Status published
Products (2)
GNU/ncurses < 6.5-20251213
invisible-island/ncurses 6.5 20240427 (49 CPE variants)
Published Mar 19, 2026
Tracked Since Mar 19, 2026