CVE-2025-69720: high-severity vulnerability in GNU ncurses
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21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.3epss 0.5%
The infocmp command-line tool in ncurses before 6.5-20251213 has a stack-based buffer overflow in analyze_string in progs/infocmp.c.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
Affected products
GNU · ncursesRelated CVEs — GNU ncurses
In the same product, most dangerous first.
References
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-253495.htmlhttps://github.com/Cao-Wuhui/CVE-2025-69720https://invisible-island.net/archives/ncurses/6.5/https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/https://marc.info/?l=ncurses-bug&m=176539968328570&w=2https://marc.info/?l=ncurses-bug&m=176540731801330&w=2https://marc.info/?l=ncurses-bug&m=176545557728083&w=2