Known Vulnerabilities for Ncurses by GNU

Listed below are 5 of the newest known vulnerabilities associated with "Ncurses" by "GNU".

These CVEs are retrieved based on exact matches on listed software, hardware, and vendor information (CPE data) as well as a keyword search to ensure the newest vulnerabilities with no officially listed software information are still displayed.

Data on known vulnerable versions is also displayed based on information from known CPEs

Known Vulnerabilities

CVE Shortened Description Severity Publish Date Last Modified
CVE-2025-69720 json The infocmp command-line tool in ncurses before 6.5-20251213 has a stack-based buffer overflow in analyze_string in progs/inf... Not Provided 2026-03-19 2026-06-02
CVE-2025-6141 json A vulnerability has been found in GNU ncurses up to 6.5-20250322 and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects th... Not Provided 2025-06-16 2026-06-02
CVE-2023-29491 json ncurses before 6.4 20230408, when used by a setuid application, allows local users to trigger security-relevant memory corrup... 7.8 - HIGH 2023-04-14 2024-01-31
CVE-2022-29458 json Not Provided 2022-04-18 2026-07-23
CVE-2021-39537 json An issue was discovered in ncurses through v6.2-1. _nc_captoinfo in captoinfo.c has a heap-based buffer overflow. 8.8 - HIGH 2021-09-20 2023-12-03
CVE-2019-17595 json There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the fmt_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c in the terminfo library in ncurses befo... 5.4 - MEDIUM 2019-10-14 2021-02-08
CVE-2019-17594 json There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the _nc_find_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c in the terminfo library in ncurses... 5.3 - MEDIUM 2019-10-14 2021-02-10

Known Affected Configurations (CPE V2.3)

Type Vendor Product Version Update Edition Language
ApplicationGnuNcurses6.2
ApplicationGnuNcurses6.1.20191012
ApplicationGnuNcurses6.1.20180414
ApplicationGnuNcurses6.1
ApplicationGnuNcurses6.0
ApplicationGnuNcurses5.9
ApplicationGnuNcurses5.8
ApplicationGnuNcurses5.7
ApplicationGnuNcurses5.6
ApplicationGnuNcurses5.5
ApplicationGnuNcurses5.4
ApplicationGnuNcurses5.3
ApplicationGnuNcurses5.2.
ApplicationGnuNcurses5.1
ApplicationGnuNcurses5.0
ApplicationGnuNcurses4.2
ApplicationGnuNcurses4.1
ApplicationGnuNcurses4.0

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