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CVE-2019-15548

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FAUCET Score

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.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 5.99.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ncurses_project:ncurses:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.62%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
73.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0162 is in the 61st percentile among its peer group of 36,835 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

rustGHSA-g7r5-x7cr-vm3vcritical

Buffer overflow and format vulnerabilities in ncurses

Aug 25, 2021

References

rustsec.org / advisories/RUSTSEC-2019-0006.html
Vendor Advisory