CVE-2025-52938

Potential heap-based buffer over-read vulnerability in NotepadNext

State: Published
Severity: 5.1 Medium
Published: Jun 23, 2025
Updated: Jun 23, 2025
Reserved: Jun 23, 2025

Description

Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability in dail8859 NotepadNext (src/lua/src modules). This vulnerability is associated with program files lparser.C.

This issue affects NotepadNext: through v0.11.

The singlevar() in lparser.c lacks a certain luaK_exp2anyregup call, leading to a heap-based buffer over-read that might affect a system that compiles untrusted Lua code.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	5.1 Medium	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L/S:N/AU:Y/R:A/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber	GovTech CSG

Weaknesses

CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read

Affected Products

Product	Versions
NotepadNextdail8859	v0.11 and earlierAffected

References

https://github.com/dail8859/NotepadNext/pull/756patchthird-party-advisory
https://github.com/dail8859/NotepadNext/commit/66b8a97d9fdfd2257996875716f39c18d84e004fpatch

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