CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-16294
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-09-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
SciLexer.dll in Scintilla in Notepad++ (x64) before 7.7 allows remote code execution or denial of service via Unicode characters in a crafted .ml file.
Affected configurations
• notepad-plus-plus notepad\+\+ (< 7.7)
• scintilla scintilla
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154706/Notepad-Code-Execution-Denial-Of-Service.html Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/bi7s/CVE/tree/master/CVE-2019-16294 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/v7.7.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaHistory.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154706/Notepad-Code-Execution-Denial-Of-Service.html Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/bi7s/CVE/tree/master/CVE-2019-16294 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/v7.7.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaHistory.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory