CVE-2023-29491
7.8
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.08%
Description
ncurses before 6.4 20230408, when used by a setuid application, allows local users to trigger security-relevant memory corruption via malformed data in a terminfo database file that is found in $HOME/.terminfo or reached via the TERMINFO or TERM environment variable.
How to fix CVE-2023-29491
To remediate CVE-2023-29491, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/ncurses—upgrade to 6.3_p20211120-r2 or later
- —upgrade to 6.2+20201114-2+deb11u2 or later
Is CVE-2023-29491 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 6.3_p20211120-r2
- from 0, < 6.2+20201114-2+deb11u2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |