🛡️ CVE-2023-40166
🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-120 NVD
5.5
CVSS Score
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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++.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-120
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2023-08-25
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2024-11-21
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
notepad\+\+ 8.5.6

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