Out-of-bounds Read Affecting dail8859/NotepadNext package, versions [,0.12)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (4th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-DAIL8859NOTEPADNEXT-10872166
  • published21 Jul 2025
  • disclosed23 Jun 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Jun 2025

CVE-2025-52938  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade dail8859/NotepadNext to version 0.12 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read via the singlevar function in lparser.c when compiling untrusted Lua code. An attacker can access sensitive information or cause a crash by providing specially crafted Lua code that triggers a heap-based buffer over-read.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1