CVE-2023-29491 (GCVE-0-2023-29491)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-04-14 00:00 – Updated: 2026-10-14 23:03
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-11-27 14:44 UTC
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2350 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP Affected: V3.1.0 , < V3.1.5 (custom)
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Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518F-4 PN/DP MFP Affected: V3.1.0 , < V3.1.5 (custom)
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Siemens SIPLUS S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP Affected: V3.1.0 , < V3.1.5 (custom)
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Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX MX5000 Affected: 0 , < V2.17.0 (custom)
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Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX MX5000RE Affected: 0 , < V2.17.0 (custom)
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Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1400 Affected: 0 , < V2.17.0 (custom)
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Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1500 Affected: 0 , < V2.17.0 (custom)
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Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1501 Affected: 0 , < V2.17.0 (custom)
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Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1510 Affected: 0 , < V2.17.0 (custom)
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Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1511 Affected: 0 , < V2.17.0 (custom)
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Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1512 Affected: 0 , < V2.17.0 (custom)
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Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1524 Affected: 0 , < V2.17.0 (custom)
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Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1536 Affected: 0 , < V2.17.0 (custom)
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Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX RX5000 Affected: 0 , < V2.17.0 (custom)
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