CVE-2025-56383
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-56383
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-56383.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-56383
- Published
- 2025-09-26T18:15:36.490Z
- Modified
- 2026-03-15T22:52:16.869191Z
- Severity
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- 8.4 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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Notepad++ v8.8.3 has a DLL hijacking vulnerability, which can replace the original DLL file to execute malicious code. NOTE: this is disputed by multiple parties because the behavior only occurs when a user installs the product into a directory tree that allows write access by arbitrary unprivileged users.
- References
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- https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2025-56383-detect-notepad-vulnerability
- https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2025-56383-mitigate-notepad-vulnerability
- https://github.com/zer0t0/CVE-2025-56383-Proof-of-Concept/issues/1
- https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus
- https://github.com/zer0t0/CVE-2025-56383-Proof-of-Concept