CVE-2026-65610

Numeric Truncation Error in nnn

LOW
2.4
CVSS Score
Published: August 19, 2026 at 01:21 PM UTC
Updated: October 27, 2026 at 12:10 PM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsNnnNnn

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Severity
LOW2.4
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

nnn stores homelen variable as uchar_t, which can only represent values in the range 0-255. An attacker who can influence the victim's execution environment can provide an arbitrary HOME path with length that is truncated to 0. The expression (homelen - 1) is promoted to signed int and becomes -1 and producing an out-of-bounds read and an out-of-bounds write one byte before the path buffer. Maintainer of this project was notified about this vulnerability. It might has been addressed, but the maintainer did not provide a vulnerable version range. Only version 5.2 was tested and confirmed as vulnerable.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

All versions

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (1)

Third Party Advisory
Source: cverecord
https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/08/CVE-2026-65609

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CVSS

2.4LOWCERT-PL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-197

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