CVE-2019-15546
Format string vulnerabilities in pancurses
An issue was discovered in the pancurses crate through 0.16.1 for Rust. printw and mvprintw have format string vulnerabilities.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
An issue was discovered in the pancurses crate through 0.16.1 for Rust. printw and mvprintw have format string vulnerabilities.
- Record
CVE-2019-15546- CVSS 3.0
- 7.5 High
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N - CVSS 2.0
- 6.4 Medium
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P - Weakness
- CWE-134
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
An issue was discovered in the pancurses crate through 0.16.1 for Rust. printw and mvprintw have format string vulnerabilities.
- Record
CVE-2019-15546- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2021-1789 No score
An issue was discovered in the pancurses crate through 0.16.1 for Rust. printw and mvprintw have format string vulnerabilities.
- Record
EUVD-2021-1789- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-m57c-4vvx-gjgq
Format string vulnerabilities in pancurses
An issue was discovered in the pancurses crate through 0.16.1 for Rust. printw and mvprintw have format string vulnerabilities.
- Record
GHSA-m57c-4vvx-gjgq- CVSS 3.0
- 7.5 High
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-134
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVGHSA-m57c-4vvx-gjgq
Format string vulnerabilities in pancurses
An issue was discovered in the pancurses crate through 0.16.1 for Rust. printw and mvprintw have format string vulnerabilities.
- Record
GHSA-m57c-4vvx-gjgq- CVSS 3.0
- 7.5 High
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-134
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVRUSTSEC-2019-0005
Format string vulnerabilities in `pancurses`
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.
- Record
RUSTSEC-2019-0005- CVSS 3.0
- 7.5 High
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
Affected packages
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2019-15546 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 7.5) in Pancurses Project Pancurses, published June 15, 2019. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 1.15%, the 67th percentile. No source names a fixed version.