VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2023-29491

CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability0.98%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2023-04-14
Last modified2026-10-14
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-787

Primary references