fkie_cve-2008-3436
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2008-08-01 14:41
Modified
2025-04-09 00:30
Severity ?
Summary
The GUP generic update process in Notepad++ before 4.8.1 does not properly verify the authenticity of updates, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse update, as demonstrated by evilgrade and DNS cache poisoning.
References
Impacted products
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