Skip to content

Format string vulnerabilities in pancurses

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Aug 25, 2021 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 1, 2023

Package

cargo pancurses (Rust)

Affected versions

<= 0.16.1

Patched versions

None

Description

An issue was discovered in the pancurses crate through 0.16.1 for Rust. printw and mvprintw have format string vulnerabilities.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Aug 26, 2019
Reviewed Aug 18, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Aug 25, 2021
Last updated Feb 1, 2023

Severity

High
7.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2019-15546

GHSA ID

GHSA-m57c-4vvx-gjgq

Source code

Checking history
See something to contribute? Suggest improvements for this vulnerability.