CVE-2023-29491

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Summary

CVECVE-2023-29491
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-04-14 01:15:08 UTC
Updated2026-07-27 13:43:06 UTC
Descriptionncurses 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v3.1 7.8 HIGH from [email protected]

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.009230000 probability, percentile 0.567690000 (date 2026-07-29)

Problem Types: CWE-787 | n/a

CVSS v3.1 Breakdown

Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Invisible-island Ncurses All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
CVE-2023-29491 GNU Ncurses Vulnerability in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.netapp.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 38 Update: ncurses-6.4-7.20230520.fc38 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org
About the security content of macOS Monterey 12.6.8 - Apple Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 support.apple.com
About the security content of macOS Big Sur 11.7.9 - Apple Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 support.apple.com
oss-security - Re: ncurses fixes upstream af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com Mailing List, Patch
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/messag... af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org
oss-security - ncurses fixes upstream af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com Mailing List
oss-security - RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: ncurses fixes upstream af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00004.html af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.debian.org
oss-security - Re: ncurses fixes upstream af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
ncurses.scripts.mit.edu Git - ncurses.git/commit af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 ncurses.scripts.mit.edu
About the security content of macOS Ventura 13.5 - Apple Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 support.apple.com
ncurses.scripts.mit.edu Git - ncurses.git/commit MITRE ncurses.scripts.mit.edu
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 160932 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for ncurses (ELSA-2023-5249)
  • 161122 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for ncurses (ELSA-2023-6698)
  • 183169 Debian Security Update for ncurses (CVE-2023-29491)
  • 199358 Ubuntu Security Notification for ncurses Vulnerabilities (USN-6099-1)
  • 242067 Red Hat Update for ncurses (RHSA-2023:5249)
  • 242310 Red Hat Update for ncurses (RHSA-2023:6698)
  • 242495 Red Hat Update for ncurses (RHSA-2023:7361)
  • 242748 Red Hat Update for ncurses (RHSA-2024:0416)
  • 284890 Fedora Security Update for ncurses (FEDORA-2024-96090dafaf)
  • 355468 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for ncurses : ALAS2023-2023-220
  • 355538 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for ncurses : ALAS2-2023-2096
  • 355648 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for ncurses : ALAS-2023-1778
  • 378925 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for ncurses (ALINUX3-SA-2023:0122)
  • 503019 Alpine Linux Security Update for ncurses
  • 503020 Alpine Linux Security Update for ncurses
  • 503021 Alpine Linux Security Update for ncurses
  • 505897 Alpine Linux Security Update for ncurses
  • 6000372 Debian Security Update for ncurses (DLA 3682-1)
  • 673221 EulerOS Security Update for ncurses (EulerOS-SA-2023-2388)
  • 673237 EulerOS Security Update for ncurses (EulerOS-SA-2023-2362)
  • 673276 EulerOS Security Update for ncurses (EulerOS-SA-2023-2620)
  • 673292 EulerOS Security Update for ncurses (EulerOS-SA-2023-2590)
  • 673389 EulerOS Security Update for ncurses (EulerOS-SA-2023-2699)
  • 673746 EulerOS Security Update for ncurses (EulerOS-SA-2023-3138)
  • 674004 EulerOS Security Update for ncurses (EulerOS-SA-2023-2657)
  • 753970 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for ncurses (SUSE-SU-2023:2112-1)
  • 754059 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for ncurses (SUSE-SU-2023:2111-1)
  • 906885 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for ncurses (26225-1)
  • 906935 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for ncurses (26241-1)
  • 941257 AlmaLinux Security Update for ncurses (ALSA-2023:5249)
  • 941368 AlmaLinux Security Update for ncurses (ALSA-2023:6698)

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