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ghsa-32p8-qq6w-3v8c

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-09-29 00:00

Modified

2022-09-30 00:00

Severity ?

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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++.

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  "id": "GHSA-32p8-qq6w-3v8c",
  "modified": "2022-09-30T00:00:37Z",
  "published": "2022-09-29T00:00:27Z",
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CVE-2022-32168 (GCVE-0-2022-32168)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2022-09-28 09:00

Modified

2025-05-21 14:14

Severity ?

CWE

CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element

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++.

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2022-32168	x_refsource_MISC
	https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/commit/85d7215d9b3e0d5a8433fc31aec4f2966821051e	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	notepad-plus-plus	notepad-plus-plus	Version: v8.3 < unspecified Version: unspecified <

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