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CVE-2017-10684

9.8 criticalEPSS 4.9%

Critical (9.8) in invisible-island ncurses. EPSS 4.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In ncurses 6.0, there is a stack-based buffer overflow in the fmt_entry function. A crafted input will lead to a remote arbitrary code execution attack.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

9.8 critical
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
4.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 92% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-119
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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