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TI-2019-11648 Aliases CVE-2019-15548GHSA-g7r5-x7cr-vm3v

An issue was discovered in the ncurses crate through 5.99.0 for Rust.

Priority MEDIUM 45CWE-119Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Code execution
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · High
Fix status
No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.0 · NVD. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-119 and the CVSS impact.

Summary

An issue was discovered in the ncurses crate through 5.99.0 for Rust. There are instr and mvwinstr buffer overflows because interaction with C functions is mishandled.

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.01615 76th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
——all versions—No fix listedCNA
—ncurses (crates.io)up to 5.101.0—No fix listedGHSA-g7r5-x7cr-vm3v
  • — Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
  • ncurses (crates.io) Vendor— Affected up to 5.101.0 Fixed in — No fix listed GHSA-g7r5-x7cr-vm3v

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:ncurses_project:ncurses:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*up to 5.99.0VulnerableNcurses Project
  • cpe:2.3:a:ncurses_project:ncurses:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions up to 5.99.0 Vulnerable ·Ncurses Project

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2019-15548
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-g7r5-x7cr-vm3v

References

Advisory 2

Other 3

  • TI-2019-11647 An issue was discovered in the ncurses crate through 5.99.0 for Rust. CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.5

Sources

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