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CVE-2025-69720

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2026-03-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-121

Description

The infocmp command-line tool in ncurses before 6.5-20251213 has a stack-based buffer overflow in analyze_string in progs/infocmp.c.

Affected products

• GNU ncurses: through 6.4; 6.5-20240427, 6.5-20240504, 6.5-20240511, 6.5-20240518, 6.5-20240519, 6.5-20240525 (+75)

References

• https://github.com/Cao-Wuhui/CVE-2025-69720
• https://invisible-island.net/archives/ncurses/6.5/
• https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/
• https://marc.info/?l=ncurses-bug&m=176539968328570&w=2
• https://marc.info/?l=ncurses-bug&m=176540731801330&w=2
• https://marc.info/?l=ncurses-bug&m=176545557728083&w=2
• https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-253495.html

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