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GHSA-32P8-QQ6W-3V8C

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-09-29 00:00 – Updated: 2022-09-30 00:00

Details

Notepad++ versions 8.4.1 and before are vulnerable to DLL hijacking where an attacker can replace the vulnerable dll (UxTheme.dll) with his own dll and run arbitrary code in the context of Notepad++.

Severity ?

7.8 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2022-32168 (GCVE-0-2022-32168)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-09-28 09:00 – Updated: 2025-05-21 14:14

Summary

Notepad++ versions 8.4.1 and before are vulnerable to DLL hijacking where an attacker can replace the vulnerable dll (UxTheme.dll) with his own dll and run arbitrary code in the context of Notepad++.

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element

Assigner

Mend

References

URL

Tags

	https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-20…	x_refsource_MISC
	https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	notepad-plus-plus	notepad-plus-plus	Affected: v8.3 , < unspecified (custom) Affected: unspecified , ≤ v8.4.4 (custom)

Credits

Mend Vulnerability Research Team (MVR)

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GHSA-32P8-QQ6W-3V8C

CVE-2022-32168 (GCVE-0-2022-32168)

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