CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-40031

7.8 HIGH Published 2023-08-25 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-08-25
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 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
Weaknesses
CWE-120, CWE-122

Description

Notepad++ is a free and open-source source code editor. Versions 8.5.6 and prior are vulnerable to heap buffer write overflow in `Utf8_16_Read::convert`. This issue may lead to arbitrary code execution. As of time of publication, no known patches are available in existing versions of Notepad++.

Affected configurations

• notepad-plus-plus notepad\+\+ (<= 8.5.6)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input weakness
  • CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow weakness

References