Medium (5.5) in notepad-plus-plus notepad\+\+. EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Notepad++ is a free and open-source source code editor. Versions 8.5.6 and prior are vulnerable to global buffer read overflow in `CharDistributionAnalysis::HandleOneChar`. 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++.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
5.5 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS
0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 31% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)