CVE-2019-15548 describes critical buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the ncurses crate for Rust, affecting versions up to 5.99.0, due to mishandled interactions with C functions. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical), indicating a network-exploitable flaw with low attack complexity, requiring no user interaction or privileges, and leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no public exploit code or active exploitation has been observed, and media coverage is absent, the vulnerability has received minimal community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 5.99.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ncurses_project:ncurses:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
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