diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 51e77a740..9e5110098 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 2025-10-31  Oliver Kiddle  <opk@zsh.org>
 
+	* 54012: Src/subst.c: fix use of out of scope array variable
+
 	* 54007: Src/exec.c, Src/hist.c, Src/init.c, Src/jobs.c, Src/module.c,
 	Src/params.c, Src/signals.c, Src/Zle/complete.c, Src/Zle/zle_misc.c,
 	Src/Zle/compresult.c, Src/Zle/zle_keymap.c, Src/Zle/zle_main.c:
diff --git a/Src/subst.c b/Src/subst.c
index d0f2a1b45..be2333ca5 100644
--- a/Src/subst.c
+++ b/Src/subst.c
@@ -1626,6 +1626,7 @@ paramsubst(LinkList l, LinkNode n, char **str, int qt, int pf_flags,
 	   int *ret_flags)
 {
     char *aptr = *str, c, cc;
+    char *arr[2];
     char *s = aptr, *fstr, *idbeg, *idend, *ostr = (char *) getdata(n);
     int colf;			/* != 0 means we found a colon after the name */
     /*
@@ -3266,7 +3267,7 @@ paramsubst(LinkList l, LinkNode n, char **str, int qt, int pf_flags,
 		}
 		if (arrasg) {
 		    /* This is an array assignment. */
-		    char *arr[2], **t, **a, **p;
+		    char **t, **a, **p;
 		    if (spsep || spbreak) {
 			aval = sepsplit(val, spsep, 0, 1);
 			isarr = nojoin ? 1 : 2;