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High · 7.8 CVE-2026-54758 EUVD-2026-60372

Notepad++: Stack Buffer Overflow in expandNppEnvironmentStrs

Published Aug 17, 2026 · Updated Aug 17, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
notepad-plus-plus notepad-plus-plus < 8.9.7 —

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