CVE-2019-15546 — Format string vulnerabilities in pancurses — CVE...

HIGH

Format string vulnerabilities in pancurses

Published August 25, 2021Updated November 8, 2023Source: osv

Summary

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

Affects 1 ecosystem: crates.io (1).

Package	Ecosystem	Affected	Fixed In
pancurses	crates.io	All versions	Range-based data available

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) identifiers for this vulnerability type.

What the CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System) 7.5 score means for each attack dimension.

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

What is CVE-2019-15546?: Format string vulnerabilities in pancurses This vulnerability has been assigned a severity rating of HIGH (CVSS score: 7.5/10).
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CVSS Score

7.5

High exploitability or significant impact. Prioritize remediation within days.

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