Is ncurses safe to use?

ncurses has 2 known vulnerabilities on the latest version (6.0.1). DepScope rates its health at 48/100 (high risk).

What is the latest version of ncurses?

The latest version of ncurses is 6.0.1, released 2024-07-12.

Yes. ncurses has 2 known vulnerabilities. See depscope.dev/pkg/cargo/ncurses for details.

No, ncurses is actively maintained. Latest release: 6.0.1 (2024-07-12).

Popular alternatives to ncurses in Cargo include: hashbrown, getrandom, windows-sys, syn.

cargov6.0.1

A very thin wrapper around the ncurses TUI library

License MITpermissive27 versions0 deps56,748 weekly dl

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 48/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

0/25

maintenance

10/20

popularity

23/25

security

15/15

maturity

0/15

community

Vulnerabilities

1 medium1 low

Advisories (2)

Severity	ID	Summary	Fixed in
medium	RUSTSEC-2025-0108	ncurses exposes uninitialized memory in string reading functions	—
unknown	GHSA-x77x-7mmh-cxv3	Uninitialized memory exposure in string reading functions	—

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