🛡️ CVE-2023-29491
🟠 CVSS 7.8 — High ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-787 NVD
7.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

ncurses 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 $HOME/.terminfo or reached via the TERMINFO or TERM environment variable.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-787
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2023-04-14
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2025-11-04

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
ncurses — 6.4

References

Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/19/10
Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/19/11
Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/19/10
Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/19/11

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