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CVE-2025-52938
NotepadNext Lua Engine Out-of-bounds Read Vulnerability
Description

Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability in dail8859 NotepadNext (src/lua/src modules). This vulnerability is associated with program files lparser.C. This issue affects NotepadNext: through v0.11. The singlevar() in lparser.c lacks a certain luaK_exp2anyregup call, leading to a heap-based buffer over-read that might affect a system that compiles untrusted Lua code.

INFO

Published Date :

June 23, 2025, 10:15 a.m.

Last Modified :

June 23, 2025, 8:16 p.m.

Source :

[email protected]

Remotely Exploitable :

No

Impact Score :

Exploitability Score :

Affected Products

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: Total Affected Vendor : 0 | Products : 0
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URL Resource
https://github.com/dail8859/NotepadNext/commit/66b8a97d9fdfd2257996875716f39c18d84e004f
https://github.com/dail8859/NotepadNext/pull/756

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  • New CVE Received by [email protected]

    Jun. 23, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability in dail8859 NotepadNext (src/lua/src modules). This vulnerability is associated with program files lparser.C. This issue affects NotepadNext: through v0.11. The singlevar() in lparser.c lacks a certain luaK_exp2anyregup call, leading to a heap-based buffer over-read that might affect a system that compiles untrusted Lua code.
    Added CVSS V4.0 AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:N/AU:Y/R:A/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber
    Added CWE CWE-125
    Added Reference https://github.com/dail8859/NotepadNext/commit/66b8a97d9fdfd2257996875716f39c18d84e004f
    Added Reference https://github.com/dail8859/NotepadNext/pull/756
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CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

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