CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2019-16294
High (7.8). EPSS 9.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
SciLexer.dll in Scintilla in Notepad++ (x64) before 7.7 allows remote code execution or denial of service via Unicode characters in a crafted .ml file.
Severity
- EPSS
- 9.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 95% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-787
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- notepad-plus-plus:notepad\+\+
- scintilla:scintilla
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154706/Notepad-Code-Execution-Denial-Of-Service.html
- https://github.com/bi7s/CVE/tree/master/CVE-2019-16294
- https://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/v7.7.html
- https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaHistory.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154706/Notepad-Code-Execution-Denial-Of-Service.html