CVE-2019-15548: Ncurses Project Ncurses

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in the ncurses crate through 5.99.0 for Rust. There are instr and mvwinstr buffer overflows because interaction with C functions is mishandled.

Affected products

• Ncurses Project Ncurses: up to and including 5.99.0

Published 2019-08-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.