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.
CVSS
No CVSS.
References
| Link | Resource |
|---|---|
| https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/08/CVE-2026-65609 |
Configurations
No configuration.
History
No history.
Information
Published : 2026-08-19 14:17
Updated : 2026-08-28 15:26
NVD link : CVE-2026-65610
Mitre link : CVE-2026-65610
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-65610
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Products Affected
No product.
CWE
CWE-197
Numeric Truncation Error
