CVE-2023-29491EPSS p59.3%

CVE-2023-29491CVE-2023-29491

invisible-island / ncurses

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.

Scoring

CVSS 7.8 ()
VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS0.93% probability of exploitation · percentile 59.3% · 2026-10-05T12:00:23Z
Last modified2026-07-27
Sourced from NVD + FIRST.org EPSS. Curated for EU compliance use cases by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.