RUSTSEC-2019-0005

Format string vulnerabilities in pancurses

Reported

June 15, 2019

Issued

October 1, 2020 (last modified: June 13, 2023)

Package

pancurses (crates.io)

Type

Vulnerability

Aliases

CVE-2019-15546
GHSA-m57c-4vvx-gjgq

References

https://github.com/RustSec/advisory-db/issues/106

CVSS Score

7.5 HIGH

CVSS Details

Attack vector: Network
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: None
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality: None
Integrity: High
Availability: None

CVSS Vector

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

Patched

no patched versions

Affected Functions

Version

pancurses::mvprintw

>=0

pancurses::printw

>=0

Description

pancurses::mvprintw and pancurses::printw passes a pointer from a rust &str to C, allowing hostile input to execute a format string attack, which trivially allows writing arbitrary data to stack memory.

Advisory available under CC0-1.0 license.