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CVE-2026-65609

nnn is vulnerable to Out-of-Bound write vulnerability.

LOW 2.4EPSS 0.11%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.11%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

nnn is vulnerable to Out-of-Bound write vulnerability. Due to lack of validation of attacker-controlled length fields deserialized from a session file, a crafted session file can cause nnn to write data beyond the bounds of fixed-size global buffers when loaded with the -s option. An attacker who can place a malicious session file in the victim's nnn session directory can exploit this to corrupt adjacent global state. 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.

CVSS 4.0: 2.4 LOWCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M
EPSS: 0.11% probability · 2th percentile
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-787
Source: cvd@cert.pl

References

https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/08/CVE-2026-65609

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.