CVE-2023-29491

Published Apr 14, 2023

Last updated a year ago

Overview

Description: ncurses 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.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type: Primary
Base score: 7.8
Impact score: 5.9
Exploitability score: 1.8
Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity: HIGH

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-787

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

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  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:ncurses:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "869BBAB1-FACC-4D19-AB7C-5FDBE33212D0",
            "versionEndExcluding": "6.4"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References