CVE-2026-86056

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Source

https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-86056

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-86056.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-86056

Aliases

GHSA-j85c-6wc9-p98p

Published

2026-09-22T17:14:13Z

Modified

2026-10-28T11:01:37Z

Severity

5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator

Summary

Notepad++: Null pointer dereference in NPPM_SAVESESSION message handler causes crash (DoS)

Details

Notepad++ is a free and open-source source code editor. Prior to 8.9.8, the NPPM_SAVESESSION handler in PowerEditor/src/NppBigSwitch.cpp converts lParam to a sessionInfo pointer and dereferences its nbFile, files, and sessionFilePathName members without checking for null. A process running at the same or a higher Windows integrity level on the same desktop can send NPPM_SAVESESSION with a null lParam, immediately terminating Notepad++ and causing denial of service and loss of unsaved documents. This issue is fixed in version 8.9.8.

Database specific

{
    "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-476"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/86xxx/CVE-2026-86056.json"
}

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus

Events

Introduced

Fixed

40f896e6f6c49a29b6ca3f559696dd786f40152d

Fixed

8b33f52e7aa488b1222d3cfce5903a38dd63101f

Database specific

Show details

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Affected versions

7.*

7.2.2

7.3.1

v5.*

v5.4.2

v5.4.3

v5.4.4

v5.4.5

v5.5

v5.5.1

v5.6

v5.6.1

v5.6.2

v5.6.3

v5.6.4

v5.6.5

v5.6.6

v5.6.7

v5.6.8

v5.7

v5.8

v5.8.1

v5.8.2

v5.8.3

v5.8.4

v5.8.5

v5.8.6

v5.8.7

v5.9

v5.9.1

v5.9.2

v5.9.3

v5.9.4

v5.9.5

v5.9.6

v5.9.6.1

v5.9.6.2

v5.9.7

v5.9.8

Other

v6.*

v6.1

v6.1.1

v6.1.2

v6.1.3

v6.1.4

v6.1.5

v6.1.6

v6.1.7

v6.1.8

v6.2

v6.2.1

v6.2.2

v6.2.3_-_End_of_World_Edition

v6.3

v6.3.1

v6.3.2

v6.3.3

v6.4

v6.4.1

v6.4.2

v6.4.3

v6.4.4

v6.4.5

v6.5

v6.5.1

v6.5.2

v6.5.3

v6.5.4

v6.5.5

v6.6

v6.6.1

v6.6.2

v6.6.3

v6.6.4

v6.6.6_-_Friday_the_13th_edition

v6.6.7

v6.6.8

v6.6.9

v6.7

v6.7.1

v6.7.2

v6.7.3

v6.7.4_-_Je_suis_Charlie_edition

v6.7.5

v6.7.7

v6.7.8

v6.7.8.1

v6.7.8.2

v6.7.9

v6.7.9.1

v6.7.9.2

v6.8

v6.8.1

v6.8.2

v6.8.3

v6.8.4

v6.8.5

v6.8.6

v6.8.7

v6.8.8

v6.8.9

v6.9

v6.9.1

v6.9.2

v7.*

v7.1

v7.2

v7.2.1

v7.2.2

v7.3

v7.3.1

v7.3.2

v7.3.3

v7.4

v7.4.1

v7.4.2

v7.5.1

v7.5.2

v7.5.3

v7.5.4

v7.5.5

v7.5.6

v7.5.7

v7.5.8

v7.5.9

v7.6

v7.6.1

v7.6.2

v7.6.3

v7.6.4

v7.6.5

v7.6.6

v7.7

v7.7.1

v7.8

v7.8.1

v7.8.2

v7.8.3

v7.8.4

v7.8.5

v7.8.6

v7.8.7

v7.8.8

v7.8.9

v7.9

v7.9.1

v7.9.2

v7.9.3

v7.9.4

v7.9.5

v8.*

v8.1

v8.1.1

v8.1.2

v8.1.3

v8.1.4

v8.1.5

v8.1.6

v8.1.7

v8.1.8

v8.1.9

v8.1.9.1

v8.1.9.2

v8.1.9.3

v8.2

v8.2.1

v8.3

v8.3.1

v8.3.2

v8.3.3

v8.4

v8.4.1

v8.4.2

v8.4.3

v8.4.4

v8.4.5

v8.4.6

v8.4.7

v8.4.8

v8.4.9

v8.5

v8.5.1

v8.5.2

v8.5.3

v8.5.4

v8.5.5

v8.5.6

v8.5.7

v8.5.8

v8.6

v8.6.1

v8.6.2

v8.6.3

v8.6.4

v8.6.5

v8.6.6

v8.6.7

v8.6.8

v8.6.9

v8.7

v8.7.1

v8.7.2

v8.7.3

v8.7.4

v8.7.5

v8.7.6

v8.7.7

v8.7.8

v8.7.9

v8.8

v8.8.1

v8.8.2

v8.8.3

v8.8.4

v8.8.5

v8.8.6

v8.8.7

v8.8.8

v8.8.9

v8.9

v8.9.1

v8.9.2

v8.9.3

v8.9.4

v8.9.5

v8.9.6

v8.9.6.1

v8.9.6.2

v8.9.6.4

v8.9.7

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-86056.json"

vanir_signatures

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vanir_signatures_modified

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