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CVE-2025-69720

CRITICAL Exploitation: PoC
9.8
CVSS 3.1
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.

Metadata

CVE ID
CVE-2025-69720
State
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Reserved
2026-01-09 00:00 UTC
Published
2026-03-19 00:00 UTC
Last updated
2026-06-02 13:00 UTC
Primary CWE
CWE-121
CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow
Vendor / Product
GNU / ncurses
Sources
cve.org  ·  NVD

Severity & Metrics

9.8 CRITICAL CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC — CISA Coordinator
Exploitation
PoC
Automatable
yes
Tech. Impact
total
Affected products (1)
VendorProductPlatformVersions
GNU ncurses — 0 < 6.5-20251213
Weakness (CWE)
CWESourceDescription
CWE-121 cna CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow
CWE-120 adp CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
CVSS scores (2)
ScoreSeverityVersionSourceVector
9.8 CRITICAL 3.1 adp CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.3 HIGH 3.1 cna CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
References (6)
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