What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-19186

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-08-22 · updated 2026-10-14
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in _nc_find_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c:66 in ncurses 6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted command.

Affected products

• GNU ncurses: 6.1
• Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere, Linux, and Microsoft Windows: all versions

References

• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Dec/10
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Dec/11
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Dec/9
• https://github.com/zjuchenyuan/fuzzpoc/blob/master/infotocap_poc2.md
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231006-0005/
• https://support.apple.com/kb/HT214036
• https://support.apple.com/kb/HT214037
• https://support.apple.com/kb/HT214038
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Dec/10
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Dec/11
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Dec/9
• https://github.com/zjuchenyuan/fuzzpoc/blob/master/infotocap_poc2.md

Get alerted when CVE-2020-19186 or the next vulnerability affects your stack