Security Advisory

CVE-2026-54758

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2026-08-17 20:05:51
Last updated 2026-08-17 22:01:11
Assigner GitHub_M
CVSS score 7.8
State PUBLISHED

Description

Notepad++ is a free and open-source source code editor. Prior to 8.9.7, the expandNppEnvironmentStrs function in PowerEditor/src/WinControls/StaticDialog/RunDlg/RunDlg.cpp copies a Notepad++ variable name between $( and ) into the fixed-size wchar_t str[MAX_PATH] stack buffer without bounding the m loop index, allowing a name of 260 or more characters to corrupt adjacent stack data, terminate the process through __report_gsfailure, and potentially execute code. This issue is fixed in version 8.9.7.