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CVE-2025-69720General(invisible-island / ncurses)

LOWCVSS 7.8 · HIGH

Signal is active with 1 mentions in latest observed window

Immediate actions

  • Track advisory updates for patch or workaround availability

Recommended action window: Monitor and triage in normal cycle

NVD description

The infocmp command-line tool in ncurses before 6.5-20251213 has a stack-based buffer overflow in analyze_string in progs/infocmp.c.

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0.0/ 10 priority

Sources & remediation

Exploit / PoC references
Vendor / third-party advisories
Other references
Weakness type (CWE)
CWE-121CWE-120

Priority

LOW

Exploitation

NONE

PoC

YES

Patch

NONE

Momentum

STABLE

Are you affected?

If you run products in this scope, you should treat this CVE as relevant to your environment.

  • ncurses

Threat summary

  • 2 mentions across 2 observed days
  • Momentum state: stable

What's happening

  • Technical details provided in 1 signal
  • General: 1 classified signal
  • Disclosure: 1 classified signal
  • Peaked 1d ago at 1 mentions (2026-03-19); latest day: 1
  • 2 total mentions across 2 days

Affected systems

Vendors
invisible-island
Products
ncurses

1 version affected across 1 product

Deep dive

Activity timeline2 mentions / 2d
00111Mentions · 2026-03-19: 1Mentions · 2026-03-23: 1Technical Details · 2026-03-23: 103-1903-23
Signal classification2 categories
General
150.0%
Disclosure
150.0%
Referenced assets2 URLs
Classification over time
DateTotalLabels
2026-03-191
General1
2026-03-231
Disclosure1
Full discourse2 posts
  • CVE@CVEnew
    Disclosure

    CVE-2025-69720 ncurses v6.5 and v6.4 are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow in progs/infocmp.c, function analyze_string(). https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-69720

    Post summary

    The text announces a buffer overflow vulnerability in ncurses 6.5 and 6.4's analyze_string function in infocmp.c.

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    56.8K followersView on X
  • Vulmon Vulnerability Feed@VulmonFeeds
    General

    CVE-2025-69720 CVE-2025-69720 https://vulmon.com/vulnerabilitydetails?qid=CVE-2025-69720

    Post summary

    The excerpt simply lists the CVE ID and links to a vulnerability database entry, offering no further details or claims.

    0000064
    4.0K followersView on X
CPE platform detail82 entries

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