CVE-2017-13734

6.5 mediumEPSS 2.1%

Medium (6.5) in invisible-island ncurses. EPSS 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

There is an illegal address access in the _nc_safe_strcat function in strings.c in ncurses 6.0 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

Severity

6.5 medium

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

EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 82% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-119
Published: 2017-08-29
Modified: 2026-07-23
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19