invisible-island CVE Vulnerabilities & Metrics

Focus on invisible-island vulnerabilities and metrics.

Last updated: 01 Oct 2026, 22:25 UTC

About invisible-island Security Exposure

This page consolidates all known Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) associated with invisible-island. We track both calendar-based metrics (using fixed periods) and rolling metrics (using gliding windows) to give you a comprehensive view of security trends and risk evolution. Use these insights to assess risk and plan your patching strategy.

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Global CVE Overview

Total invisible-island CVEs: 31
Earliest CVE date: 19 Dec 2000, 05:00 UTC
Latest CVE date: 19 Mar 2026, 15:16 UTC

Latest CVE reference: CVE-2025-69720

Rolling Stats

30-day Count (Rolling): 0
365-day Count (Rolling): 1

Calendar-based Variation

Calendar-based Variation compares a fixed calendar period (e.g., this month versus the same month last year), while Rolling Growth Rate uses a continuous window (e.g., last 30 days versus the previous 30 days) to capture trends independent of calendar boundaries.

Variations & Growth

Month Variation (Calendar): 0%
Year Variation (Calendar): 0%

Month Growth Rate (30-day Rolling): 0.0%
Year Growth Rate (365-day Rolling): 0.0%

Monthly CVE Trends (current vs previous Year)

Annual CVE Trends (Last 20 Years)

Critical invisible-island CVEs (CVSS ≥ 9) Over 20 Years

CVSS Stats

Average CVSS: 4.0

Max CVSS: 9.3

Critical CVEs (≥9): 2

CVSS Range vs. Count

Range Count
0.0-3.9 12
4.0-6.9 16
7.0-8.9 6
9.0-10.0 2

CVSS Distribution Chart

Top 5 Highest CVSS invisible-island CVEs

These are the five CVEs with the highest CVSS scores for invisible-island, sorted by severity first and recency.

All CVEs for invisible-island

The infocmp command-line tool in ncurses before 6.5-20251213 has a stack-based buffer overflow in analyze_string in progs/infocmp.c.

NCurse v6.4-20230418 was discovered to contain a segmentation fault via the component _nc_wrap_entry().

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in _nc_find_entry in tinfo/comp_hash.c:70 in ncurses 6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted command.

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in postprocess_terminfo function in tinfo/parse_entry.c:997 in ncurses 6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted command.

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in fmt_entry function in progs/dump_entry.c:1116 in ncurses 6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted command.

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in fmt_entry function in progs/dump_entry.c:1100 in ncurses 6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted command.

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in _nc_find_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c:66 in ncurses 6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted command.

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in one_one_mapping function in progs/dump_entry.c:1373 in ncurses 6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted command.

xterm before 380 supports ReGIS reporting for character-set names even if they have unexpected characters (i.e., neither alphanumeric nor underscore), aka a pointer/overflow issue. This can only occur for xterm installations that are configured at compile time to use a certain experimental feature.

ncurses before 6.4 20230408, when used by a setuid application, allows local users to trigger security-relevant memory corruption via malformed data in a terminfo database file that is found in $HOME/.terminfo or reached via the TERMINFO or TERM environment variable.

xterm before 375 allows code execution via font ops, e.g., because an OSC 50 response may have Ctrl-g and therefore lead to command execution within the vi line-editing mode of Zsh. NOTE: font ops are not allowed in the xterm default configurations of some Linux distributions.

CVE-2022-29458 invisible-island vulnerability CVSS: 5.8 18 Apr 2022, 21:15 UTC

ncurses 6.3 before patch 20220416 has an out-of-bounds read and segmentation violation in convert_strings in tinfo/read_entry.c in the terminfo library.

CVE-2022-24130 invisible-island vulnerability CVSS: 2.6 31 Jan 2022, 05:15 UTC

xterm through Patch 370, when Sixel support is enabled, allows attackers to trigger a buffer overflow in set_sixel in graphics_sixel.c via crafted text.

CVE-2021-39537 invisible-island vulnerability CVSS: 6.8 20 Sep 2021, 16:15 UTC

An issue was discovered in ncurses through v6.2-1. _nc_captoinfo in captoinfo.c has a heap-based buffer overflow.

CVE-2021-27135 invisible-island vulnerability CVSS: 7.5 10 Feb 2021, 16:15 UTC

xterm before Patch #366 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a crafted UTF-8 combining character sequence.

CVE-2019-17595 invisible-island vulnerability CVSS: 5.8 14 Oct 2019, 21:15 UTC

There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the fmt_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c in the terminfo library in ncurses before 6.1-20191012.

CVE-2019-17594 invisible-island vulnerability CVSS: 4.6 14 Oct 2019, 21:15 UTC

There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the _nc_find_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c in the terminfo library in ncurses before 6.1-20191012.

CVE-2018-19217 invisible-island vulnerability CVSS: 4.3 12 Nov 2018, 19:29 UTC

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

CVE-2018-19211 invisible-island vulnerability CVSS: 4.3 12 Nov 2018, 19:29 UTC

In ncurses 6.1, there is a NULL pointer dereference at function _nc_parse_entry in parse_entry.c that will lead to a denial of service attack. The product proceeds to the dereference code path even after a "dubious character `*' in name or alias field" detection.

CVE-2017-16879 invisible-island vulnerability CVSS: 6.8 22 Nov 2017, 22:29 UTC

Stack-based buffer overflow in the _nc_write_entry function in tinfo/write_entry.c in ncurses 6.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted terminfo file, as demonstrated by tic.

CVE-2017-13734 invisible-island vulnerability CVSS: 4.3 29 Aug 2017, 06:29 UTC

There is an illegal address access in the _nc_safe_strcat function in strings.c in ncurses 6.0 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

CVE-2017-13733 invisible-island vulnerability CVSS: 4.3 29 Aug 2017, 06:29 UTC

There is an illegal address access in the fmt_entry function in progs/dump_entry.c in ncurses 6.0 that might lead to a remote denial of service attack.

CVE-2017-13732 invisible-island vulnerability CVSS: 4.3 29 Aug 2017, 06:29 UTC

There is an illegal address access in the function dump_uses() in progs/dump_entry.c in ncurses 6.0 that might lead to a remote denial of service attack.

CVE-2017-13731 invisible-island vulnerability CVSS: 4.3 29 Aug 2017, 06:29 UTC

There is an illegal address access in the function postprocess_termcap() in parse_entry.c in ncurses 6.0 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

CVE-2017-13730 invisible-island vulnerability CVSS: 4.3 29 Aug 2017, 06:29 UTC

There is an illegal address access in the function _nc_read_entry_source() in progs/tic.c in ncurses 6.0 that might lead to a remote denial of service attack.

CVE-2017-13729 invisible-island vulnerability CVSS: 4.3 29 Aug 2017, 06:29 UTC

There is an illegal address access in the _nc_save_str function in alloc_entry.c in ncurses 6.0. It will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

CVE-2017-13728 invisible-island vulnerability CVSS: 4.3 29 Aug 2017, 06:29 UTC

There is an infinite loop in the next_char function in comp_scan.c in ncurses 6.0, related to libtic. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

CVE-2017-11113 invisible-island vulnerability CVSS: 5.0 08 Jul 2017, 17:29 UTC

In ncurses 6.0, there is a NULL Pointer Dereference in the _nc_parse_entry function of tinfo/parse_entry.c. It could lead to a remote denial of service attack if the terminfo library code is used to process untrusted terminfo data.

CVE-2017-11112 invisible-island vulnerability CVSS: 5.0 08 Jul 2017, 17:29 UTC

In ncurses 6.0, there is an attempted 0xffffffffffffffff access in the append_acs function of tinfo/parse_entry.c. It could lead to a remote denial of service attack if the terminfo library code is used to process untrusted terminfo data.

CVE-2017-10685 invisible-island vulnerability CVSS: 7.5 29 Jun 2017, 23:29 UTC

In ncurses 6.0, there is a format string vulnerability in the fmt_entry function. A crafted input will lead to a remote arbitrary code execution attack.

CVE-2017-10684 invisible-island vulnerability CVSS: 7.5 29 Jun 2017, 23:29 UTC

In ncurses 6.0, there is a stack-based buffer overflow in the fmt_entry function. A crafted input will lead to a remote arbitrary code execution attack.

CVE-2008-2383 invisible-island vulnerability CVSS: 9.3 02 Jan 2009, 18:11 UTC

CRLF injection vulnerability in xterm allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary commands via LF (aka \n) characters surrounding a command name within a Device Control Request Status String (DECRQSS) escape sequence in a text file, a related issue to CVE-2003-0063 and CVE-2003-0071.

CVE-2006-7236 invisible-island vulnerability CVSS: 9.3 02 Jan 2009, 18:11 UTC

The default configuration of xterm on Debian GNU/Linux sid and possibly Ubuntu enables the allowWindowOps resource, which allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code or have unspecified other impact via escape sequences.

CVE-2005-3120 invisible-island vulnerability CVSS: 7.5 17 Oct 2005, 20:06 UTC

Stack-based buffer overflow in the HTrjis function in Lynx 2.8.6 and earlier allows remote NNTP servers to execute arbitrary code via certain article headers containing Asian characters that cause Lynx to add extra escape (ESC) characters.

CVE-2002-0062 invisible-island vulnerability CVSS: 7.2 08 Mar 2002, 05:00 UTC

Buffer overflow in ncurses 5.0, and the ncurses4 compatibility package as used in Red Hat Linux, allows local users to gain privileges, related to "routines for moving the physical cursor and scrolling."

CVE-2000-0963 invisible-island vulnerability CVSS: 7.2 19 Dec 2000, 05:00 UTC

Buffer overflow in ncurses library allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via long environmental information such as TERM or TERMINFO_DIRS.