VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2017-13734
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.
MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 2.15%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.15%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
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.
- CVSS 3.0
- 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 2.15% probability · 82th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-119
- Affected
- invisible-island/ncurses
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 2.1% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484291Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484291Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.