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CVE-2025-52938

MediumCVSS 5.1 / 10
Published Jun 23, 2025·Last modified Apr 12, 2026
Affected Components(0)

No affected components available

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.

Risk Scores
Base Score
5.1

The vulnerability requires local access to the device to be exploited. It is easy for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker does not need any special privileges or access rights. No user interaction is needed for the attacker to exploit this vulnerability.

Threat Intelligence
1.2

Limited exploitation activity has been observed. Close monitoring and planned remediation are recommended.

EPSS
0.15%

The exploit probability is very low. The vulnerability is unlikely to be exploited in the next 30 days.

Exploit
Not available

We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.

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