CVE-2023-6401
HIGH 7.8EPSS 0.3%
A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in NotePad++ up to 8.1. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file dbghelp.exe. The manipulation leads to uncontrolled search path. An attack has to be approached locally. The identifier VDB-246421 was assigned to this vulnerability. NOTE: The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way. In NotePad++ bis 8.1 wurde eine problematische Schwachstelle entdeckt. Das betrifft eine unbekannte Funktionalität der Datei dbghelp.exe. Durch Beeinflussen mit unbekannten Daten kann eine uncontrolled search path-Schwachstelle ausgenutzt werden. Der Angriff muss lokal angegangen werden.
- CVSS v3.1
- 7.8 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - CVSS v3.1
- 5.3 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L - CVSS v2.0
- 4.3 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P - EPSS
- 0.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 26th percentile
- Published
- 2023-11-30
- Updated
- 2024-08-02
Proof-of-concept exploits (1)
- mekitoci/CVE-2023-64010★ · 2025-06-18