Vulnerability Report

CVE-2018-19217

Title: Gnu Ncurses Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2018-19217.

CWE Category CWE-476

Published Date Nov 12, 2018

Modified Date Jul 23, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.5 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.15%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2018-19217: In ncurses, possibly a 6.x version, there is a NULL pointer dereference at the function _nc_name_match that will lead to a denial of service attack. NOTE: the original report stated version 6.1, but the issue did not reproduce for that version according to the maintainer or a reliable third-party

Impacted Vendors

gnu 1

ncurses_project 1

invisible-island 1

Reference Links

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1643753 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1643753

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

REQUIRED

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2018-19217 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

July 23, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

November 21, 2024 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

November 12, 2018 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK

Complexity LOW

Privileges N/A

Interaction REQUIRED

CVSS Vector String


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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.