{"id":"CVE-2026-54758","aliases":["EUVD-2026-60372","GHSA-gv94-327x-2gc5"],"status":"published","title":"Notepad++: Stack Buffer Overflow in expandNppEnvironmentStrs","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.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":7.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-11","score":0.00194,"percentile":0.09221,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-121","CWE-787"],"published":"2026-08-17T20:05:51Z","modified":"2026-10-28T10:52:07Z","products":[{"vendor":"notepad-plus-plus","product":"notepad-plus-plus"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/security/advisories/GHSA-gv94-327x-2gc5","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/commit/0a9527e9f7140a2323e25d14e362b46ee0efc3db","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","fix"]},{"url":"https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/releases/tag/v8.9.7","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/54xxx/CVE-2026-54758.json","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-54758","tags":["advisory"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-54758","title":"Notepad++: Stack Buffer Overflow in expandNppEnvironmentStrs","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.","status":"published","published":"2026-08-17T20:05:51.923Z","modified":"2026-08-17T22:01:11.798Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-121","CWE-787"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T13:38:09.774038Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2026-60372","description":"Notepad++ is a free and open-source source code editor. 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