VDB
CVE-2025-69720
CVE-2025-69720
PUBLISHED
CVSS 7.300000190734863 HIGH
The infocmp command-line tool in ncurses before 6.5-20251213 has a stack-based buffer overflow in analyze_string in progs/infocmp.c.
EPSS 0.01% · 2.1th percentile
Risk Scores
CVSS 3.1
7.300000190734863
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
EPSS Score
0.01%
2.1th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| gnu | ncurses | 0, 0 |
| invisible-island | ncurses | 6.5, 6.5, 6.5 |
| GNU | ncurses | 0, 0 |
Exploit Intelligence
- Advisory for CVE-2025-69720: stack-based buffer overflow in GNU ncurses infocmp (CWE-121) (github-poc-repo)
- Advisory for CVE-2025-69720: stack-based buffer overflow in GNU ncurses infocmp (CWE-121) (github-poc-repo)
- Advisory for CVE-2025-69720: stack-based buffer overflow in GNU ncurses infocmp (CWE-121) (github-poc-repo)
- Advisory for CVE-2025-69720: stack-based buffer overflow in GNU ncurses infocmp (CWE-121) (github-poc-repo)
- Advisory for CVE-2025-69720: stack-based buffer overflow in GNU ncurses infocmp (CWE-121) (github-poc-repo)
- Advisory for CVE-2025-69720: stack-based buffer overflow in GNU ncurses infocmp (CWE-121) (github-poc-repo)
- Advisory for CVE-2025-69720: stack-based buffer overflow in GNU ncurses infocmp (CWE-121) (github-poc-repo)
- Advisory for CVE-2025-69720: stack-based buffer overflow in GNU ncurses infocmp (CWE-121) (github-poc-repo)
- Advisory for CVE-2025-69720: stack-based buffer overflow in GNU ncurses infocmp (CWE-121) (github-poc-repo)
- Advisory for CVE-2025-69720: stack-based buffer overflow in GNU ncurses infocmp (CWE-121) (github-poc)
…and 63 more exploits
Timeline
- Mar 19, 2026 CVE Published
- Mar 20, 2026 EPSS Score
- Mar 21, 2026 EPSS Score
- Mar 22, 2026 EPSS Score
- Mar 23, 2026 EPSS Score
- Mar 24, 2026 EPSS Score
- Mar 25, 2026 EPSS Score
- Mar 26, 2026 Coalition ESS Score
- Mar 26, 2026 Distribution Patch
- Mar 26, 2026 Security Advisory
- Mar 29, 2026 Security Advisory
- Mar 31, 2026 Security Advisory
References
- https://marc.info/?l=ncurses-bug&m=176539968328570&w=2 url
- https://marc.info/?l=ncurses-bug&m=176540731801330&w=2 url
- https://marc.info/?l=ncurses-bug&m=176545557728083&w=2 url
- https://github.com/Cao-Wuhui/CVE-2025-69720 url
- https://invisible-island.net/archives/ncurses/6.5/ url
- https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ url
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-69720 advisory
- https://invisible-island.net/archives/ncurses/6.5 url
- https://invisible-island.net/ncurses url
- https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-32748 advisory
- https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-4438 advisory
- https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-23347 advisory
- https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-23268 advisory
- https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-23392 advisory
- https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-23319 advisory
- https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-23253 advisory
- https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-23296 advisory
- https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-23364 advisory
- https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-23368 advisory
- https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-27654 advisory
…and 66 more