What is CVE-2023-40036?
Notepad++ is a free and open-source source code editor. Versions 8.5.6 and prior are vulnerable to global buffer read overflow in `CharDistributionAnalysis::HandleOneChar`. The exploitability of this issue is not clear. Potentially, it may be used to leak internal memory allocation information. As of time of publication, no known patches are available in existing versions of Notepad++.
The record classifies CVE-2023-40036 under weakness class CWE-120. Its CVSS v3 base vector states that the flaw requires local access to the host, needs no prior authentication, needs a user to take an action first, and has high impact on confidentiality. 1 affected-product entry is recorded, across 1 vendor, listed below. The identifier was first published 1137 days ago.
Severity and exploitation probability
- CVSS v3.1 base score
- 5.5 — MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N - EPSS (FIRST)
- 0.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 14.1% of all scored CVEs
- CISA KEV
- Not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
- Threadlinqs priority
- 3.3/10 — a Threadlinqs composite of the CVSS base score, the EPSS percentile and public exploit availability
- Published
- 2023-08-25, last modified 2024-11-21
Is CVE-2023-40036 being exploited?
It currently carries a trending score of 9 in the Threadlinqs vulnerability feed.
Affected products and versions
- Notepad-plus-plus: Notepad++
How to fix CVE-2023-40036
The record marks a vendor fix as available for CVE-2023-40036. Patch reference: https://github.com/redis/redis/security/advisories/GHSA-8wjh-59cw-9xh4. Apply the vendor fix referenced above to every affected product listed in this record, then confirm the running version against the vendor advisory.
Threat activity tracking CVE-2023-40036
No threat campaign in the Threadlinqs corpus currently references CVE-2023-40036, in its CVE list or as an indicator. The linkage is recomputed from the live corpus on every daily ingest, so this section fills in as soon as a tracked campaign cites the identifier.
Sources
Seeded from manual and not yet processed by the Threadlinqs enrichment pipeline, so blank CVSS, EPSS or KEV fields above mean NOT MEASURED rather than measured-absent.