Rust advisories / pancurses
Vulnerability HighRUSTSEC-2019-0005 · pancurses
RUSTSEC-2019-0005: Format string vulnerabilities in `pancurses`
Short answerA security vulnerability in the pancurses crate: Format string vulnerabilities in `pancurses`. High severity (CVSS 7.5). No fixed version: replace the crate or remove the affected code path.
| Crate | pancurses |
|---|---|
| Type | Vulnerability |
| Affected versions | Every version. |
| Fixed in | none |
| Severity | High, CVSS 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
| Published | 2019-06-15 |
| Last changed | 2023-11-08 |
| Also known as | CVE-2019-15546, GHSA-m57c-4vvx-gjgq |
| Affected functions | pancurses::mvprintw, pancurses::printw |
What to do
- Find who pulls it in:
cargo tree -i pancurses. - Avoid the affected API (
pancurses::mvprintw,pancurses::printw), or replace the crate.
Details from the advisory
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.
References
- Package: crates.io/crates/pancurses
- Advisory: rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2019-0005.html
- Report: github.com/RustSec/advisory-db/issues/106
From the RustSec Advisory Database (CC0-1.0) via the OSV export, downloaded Oct 24, 2026. Severity score computed from the published CVSS vector.
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