CVE-2025-52938CWE-125

Potential heap-based buffer over-read vulnerability in NotepadNext

Medium · published June 23, 2025

CVSS v4.0
5.1
EPSS
0%
Percentile
6.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
5.1 · MEDIUM
Vector
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
EPSS
0.00175 · 6.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read
Published
2025-06-23T09:26Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 23 JUN 09:26Z
    Potential heap-based buffer over-read vulnerability in NotepadNext
    cvelistv5