CVSS 3.1
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NCVE-2023-40166
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 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++.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 35% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-120, CWE-122
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- notepad-plus-plus:notepad\+\+