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CVE-2026-4545

A security flaw has been discovered in Flos Freeware Notepad2 4.2.25. This affects an unknown function in the library PROPSYS.dll. Performing a manipulation results in uncontrolled search path. The attack is only possible with local access. The attack is considered to have high complexity. The exploitability is reported as difficult. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.
Lifecycle PUBLISHED1 preserved revisionFact urn:baitaphish:canonical-cve-fact-revision:v2:759715572db826446898ecdbe7fb2baccedc241039b8a2640d1d8cca1d452a6d
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
2

Preserved source conflicts

No provider value was silently selected as the winner.

cvss · 4 assertions

{"metric":{"baseScore":7,"baseSeverity":"HIGH","vectorString":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:X/RL:X/RC:R","version":"3.0"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_0"}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:4cb4c272d57db015cf0bc3a3d57d44ddbb93d0a8d07392b7a749520851ffd79b · sha256:d31abf83168d8727… · /containers/cna/metrics/2/cvssV3_0

{"metric":{"baseScore":7,"baseSeverity":"HIGH","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:X/RL:X/RC:R","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:4cb4c272d57db015cf0bc3a3d57d44ddbb93d0a8d07392b7a749520851ffd79b · sha256:d31abf83168d8727… · /containers/cna/metrics/1/cvssV3_1

{"metric":{"baseScore":6,"vectorString":"AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:ND/RL:ND/RC:UR","version":"2.0"},"metric_type":"cvssV2_0"}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:4cb4c272d57db015cf0bc3a3d57d44ddbb93d0a8d07392b7a749520851ffd79b · sha256:d31abf83168d8727… · /containers/cna/metrics/3/cvssV2_0

{"metric":{"baseScore":7.3,"baseSeverity":"HIGH","vectorString":"CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X","version":"4.0"},"metric_type":"cvssV4_0"}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:4cb4c272d57db015cf0bc3a3d57d44ddbb93d0a8d07392b7a749520851ffd79b · sha256:d31abf83168d8727… · /containers/cna/metrics/0/cvssV4_0
cwe · 2 assertions

{"cweId":"CWE-426","description":"Untrusted Search Path","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:4cb4c272d57db015cf0bc3a3d57d44ddbb93d0a8d07392b7a749520851ffd79b · sha256:d31abf83168d8727… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/1/descriptions/0

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

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:4cb4c272d57db015cf0bc3a3d57d44ddbb93d0a8d07392b7a749520851ffd79b · sha256:d31abf83168d8727… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

Affected products and versions

1 source assertion
{"product":"Notepad2","vendor":"Flos Freeware","versions":[{"status":"affected","version":"4.2.25"}]}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:4cb4c272d57db015cf0bc3a3d57d44ddbb93d0a8d07392b7a749520851ffd79b · sha256:d31abf83168d8727… · /containers/cna/affected/0

Provider-owned CVSS observations

4 source assertions
{"metric":{"baseScore":7,"baseSeverity":"HIGH","vectorString":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:X/RL:X/RC:R","version":"3.0"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_0"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:4cb4c272d57db015cf0bc3a3d57d44ddbb93d0a8d07392b7a749520851ffd79b · sha256:d31abf83168d8727… · /containers/cna/metrics/2/cvssV3_0
{"metric":{"baseScore":7,"baseSeverity":"HIGH","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:X/RL:X/RC:R","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:4cb4c272d57db015cf0bc3a3d57d44ddbb93d0a8d07392b7a749520851ffd79b · sha256:d31abf83168d8727… · /containers/cna/metrics/1/cvssV3_1
{"metric":{"baseScore":6,"vectorString":"AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:ND/RL:ND/RC:UR","version":"2.0"},"metric_type":"cvssV2_0"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:4cb4c272d57db015cf0bc3a3d57d44ddbb93d0a8d07392b7a749520851ffd79b · sha256:d31abf83168d8727… · /containers/cna/metrics/3/cvssV2_0
{"metric":{"baseScore":7.3,"baseSeverity":"HIGH","vectorString":"CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X","version":"4.0"},"metric_type":"cvssV4_0"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:4cb4c272d57db015cf0bc3a3d57d44ddbb93d0a8d07392b7a749520851ffd79b · sha256:d31abf83168d8727… · /containers/cna/metrics/0/cvssV4_0

CWE assertions

2 source assertions
{"cweId":"CWE-426","description":"Untrusted Search Path","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:4cb4c272d57db015cf0bc3a3d57d44ddbb93d0a8d07392b7a749520851ffd79b · sha256:d31abf83168d8727… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/1/descriptions/0
{"cweId":"CWE-427","description":"Uncontrolled Search Path","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:4cb4c272d57db015cf0bc3a3d57d44ddbb93d0a8d07392b7a749520851ffd79b · sha256:d31abf83168d8727… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

Source references

4 source assertions
{"tags":["related"],"url":"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o3A3x47B2gi645H02-28qgoIgGN-g6rK/view"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:4cb4c272d57db015cf0bc3a3d57d44ddbb93d0a8d07392b7a749520851ffd79b · sha256:d31abf83168d8727… · /containers/cna/references/3
{"name":"VDB-352372 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, TTP, IOA)","tags":["signature","permissions-required"],"url":"https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.352372"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:4cb4c272d57db015cf0bc3a3d57d44ddbb93d0a8d07392b7a749520851ffd79b · sha256:d31abf83168d8727… · /containers/cna/references/1
{"name":"VDB-352372 | Flos Freeware Notepad2 PROPSYS.dll uncontrolled search path","tags":["vdb-entry"],"url":"https://vuldb.com/?id.352372"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:4cb4c272d57db015cf0bc3a3d57d44ddbb93d0a8d07392b7a749520851ffd79b · sha256:d31abf83168d8727… · /containers/cna/references/0
{"name":"Submit #774752 | Flos Freeware Notepad2 4.2.25 Uncontrolled Search Path","tags":["third-party-advisory"],"url":"https://vuldb.com/?submit.774752"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:4cb4c272d57db015cf0bc3a3d57d44ddbb93d0a8d07392b7a749520851ffd79b · sha256:d31abf83168d8727… · /containers/cna/references/2

Attribution and limitations

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

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