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CVE-2026-38972

Notepad3 through 6.25.822.1 contains a DLL search-order hijacking vulnerability in the About-dialog code path in src/Notepad3.c. The application calls LoadLibrary(L"MSFTEDIT.DLL") with a bare DLL name, which allows a local attacker to place a malicious MSFTEDIT.DLL in the application directory or another preferred DLL search location and achieve arbitrary code execution in the context of the user when the About dialog is opened.
Lifecycle PUBLISHED1 preserved revisionFact urn:baitaphish:canonical-cve-fact-revision:v2:385f862ad37b51111b127160b6065a12301dba5e29d66012da734782a415f937
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
1

Preserved source conflicts

No provider value was silently selected as the winner.

cwe · 2 assertions

{"description":"n/a","lang":"en","type":"text"}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:1a15475a835b3710cd7cb552caf85d197cb500e069828d5a0beb97ebebf0fbf9 · sha256:eb112d4109b3217a… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

{"cweId":"CWE-427","description":"CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:1a15475a835b3710cd7cb552caf85d197cb500e069828d5a0beb97ebebf0fbf9 · sha256:eb112d4109b3217a… · /containers/adp/0/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

Affected products and versions

1 source assertion
{"product":"n/a","vendor":"n/a","versions":[{"status":"affected","version":"n/a"}]}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:1a15475a835b3710cd7cb552caf85d197cb500e069828d5a0beb97ebebf0fbf9 · sha256:eb112d4109b3217a… · /containers/cna/affected/0

Provider-owned CVSS observations

1 source assertion
{"metric":{"attackComplexity":"LOW","attackVector":"LOCAL","availabilityImpact":"HIGH","baseScore":7.8,"baseSeverity":"HIGH","confidentialityImpact":"HIGH","integrityImpact":"HIGH","privilegesRequired":"NONE","scope":"UNCHANGED","userInteraction":"REQUIRED","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:1a15475a835b3710cd7cb552caf85d197cb500e069828d5a0beb97ebebf0fbf9 · sha256:eb112d4109b3217a… · /containers/adp/0/metrics/0/cvssV3_1

CWE assertions

2 source assertions
{"description":"n/a","lang":"en","type":"text"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:1a15475a835b3710cd7cb552caf85d197cb500e069828d5a0beb97ebebf0fbf9 · sha256:eb112d4109b3217a… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0
{"cweId":"CWE-427","description":"CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:1a15475a835b3710cd7cb552caf85d197cb500e069828d5a0beb97ebebf0fbf9 · sha256:eb112d4109b3217a… · /containers/adp/0/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

Source references

4 source assertions
{"url":"https://github.com/rizonesoft/Notepad3"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:1a15475a835b3710cd7cb552caf85d197cb500e069828d5a0beb97ebebf0fbf9 · sha256:eb112d4109b3217a… · /containers/cna/references/2
{"tags":["exploit"],"url":"https://github.com/rizonesoft/Notepad3/issues/5605"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:1a15475a835b3710cd7cb552caf85d197cb500e069828d5a0beb97ebebf0fbf9 · sha256:eb112d4109b3217a… · /containers/adp/0/references/0
{"url":"https://github.com/rizonesoft/Notepad3/issues/5605"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:1a15475a835b3710cd7cb552caf85d197cb500e069828d5a0beb97ebebf0fbf9 · sha256:eb112d4109b3217a… · /containers/cna/references/1
{"url":"https://github.com/rizonesoft/Notepad3/pull/5606"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:1a15475a835b3710cd7cb552caf85d197cb500e069828d5a0beb97ebebf0fbf9 · sha256:eb112d4109b3217a… · /containers/cna/references/0

Attribution and limitations

  • CVE Program CVEList V5: Reproduce the MITRE copyright designation and CVE license in copies. Source →

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