CVE-2022-32168

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Source

https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-32168

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-32168.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-32168

Published

2022-09-28T09:00:15.327Z

Modified

2026-07-22T02:24:23.651497Z

Severity

7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator

Summary

notepad-plus-plus - DLL Hijacking

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++.

Database specific

{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/32xxx/CVE-2022-32168.json",
    "cna_assigner": "Mend",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-427"
    ]
}

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus

Events

Introduced

ae6361fa3528335fe809165956d1d78ea495575c

Fixed

ea1e9295ebf5886a02f1646a507b6ce3ec698f0d

Fixed

85d7215d9b3e0d5a8433fc31aec4f2966821051e

Database specific

{
    "source": [
        "CPE_RANGE",
        "REFERENCES"
    ],
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "8.3"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "8.4.5"
        }
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:notepad-plus-plus:notepad\\+\\+:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
}

Affected versions

v8.*

v8.3

v8.3.1

v8.3.2

v8.3.3

v8.4

v8.4.1

v8.4.2

v8.4.3

v8.4.4

v8.4.5

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-32168.json"

vanir_signatures_modified

"2026-07-22T02:24:23Z"

vanir_signatures

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