CVE-2009-3857: Softonic Scite

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in Softonic International SciTE 1.72 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a Ruby (.rb) file containing a long string, which triggers the crash when a scroll bar is used.

Affected products

• Softonic Scite: version 1.72 only

Published 2009-11-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.