What is CVE-2019-15546?

CVE-2019-15546 is a high-severity vulnerability in Pancurses Project, classified under Use of Externally-Controlled Format String. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2019-08-26.

How severe is CVE-2019-15546?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Pancurses Project

CVE-2019-15546

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

EPSS: 0.011 (63.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

Pancurses_project Pancurses
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-134 — Use of Externally-Controlled Format String

References

cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-15546?: CVE-2019-15546 is a high-severity vulnerability in Pancurses Project, classified under Use of Externally-Controlled Format String. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2019-08-26.
How severe is CVE-2019-15546?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.