CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-40166

5.5 MEDIUM 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])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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 read overflow in `FileManager::detectLanguageFromTextBegining `. The exploitability of this issue is not clear. Potentially, it may be used to leak internal memory allocation information. 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