CVE-2025-52938 MEDIUM

CVE-2025-52938: Potential heap-based buffer over-read vulnerability in NotepadNext

Vendor Dail8859
Product NotepadNext
Weakness CWE-125
Published June 23, 2025
Last update June 23, 2025
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CVSS base score

5.1/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality —
Integrity —

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L/S:N/AU:Y/R:A/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

June 23, 2025 CVE published
June 23, 2025 Record updated