CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-3436
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-08-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-94
Description
The GUP generic update process in Notepad++ before 4.8.1 does not properly verify the authenticity of updates, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse update, as demonstrated by evilgrade and DNS cache poisoning.
Affected configurations
• notepad\+\+ notepad\+\+ (<= 1.0)
• notepad\+\+ notepad\+\+ (<= 1.1)
• notepad\+\+ notepad\+\+ (<= 1.2)
• notepad\+\+ notepad\+\+ (<= 1.3)
• notepad\+\+ notepad\+\+ (<= 1.4)
• notepad\+\+ notepad\+\+ (<= 1.5)
• notepad\+\+ notepad\+\+ (<= 1.6)
• notepad\+\+ notepad\+\+ (<= 1.7)
• notepad\+\+ notepad\+\+ (<= 1.8)
• notepad\+\+ notepad\+\+ (<= 1.9)
• notepad\+\+ notepad\+\+ (<= 2.1)
• notepad\+\+ notepad\+\+ (<= 2.2)
• notepad\+\+ notepad\+\+ (<= 2.3)
• notepad\+\+ notepad\+\+ (<= 2.4)
• notepad\+\+ notepad\+\+ (<= 2.5)
• notepad\+\+ notepad\+\+ (<= 2.6)
• notepad\+\+ notepad\+\+ (<= 2.8)
• notepad\+\+ notepad\+\+ (<= 2.9)
• notepad\+\+ notepad\+\+ (<= 3.0)
• notepad\+\+ notepad\+\+ (<= 3.1)
• notepad\+\+ notepad\+\+ (<= 3.2)
• notepad\+\+ notepad\+\+ (<= 3.3)
• notepad\+\+ notepad\+\+ (<= 3.4)
• notepad\+\+ notepad\+\+ (<= 3.5)
• notepad\+\+ notepad\+\+ (<= 3.6)
• notepad\+\+ notepad\+\+ (<= 3.7)
• notepad\+\+ notepad\+\+ (<= 3.8)
• notepad\+\+ notepad\+\+ (<= 3.9)
• notepad\+\+ notepad\+\+ (<= 4.0)
• notepad\+\+ notepad\+\+ (<= 4.0.2)
• notepad\+\+ notepad\+\+ (<= 4.1)
• notepad\+\+ notepad\+\+ (<= 4.1.1)
• notepad\+\+ notepad\+\+ (<= 4.1.2)
• notepad\+\+ notepad\+\+ (<= 4.2.1)
• notepad\+\+ notepad\+\+ (<= 4.2.2)
• notepad\+\+ notepad\+\+ (<= 4.3)
• notepad\+\+ notepad\+\+ (<= 4.4)
• notepad\+\+ notepad\+\+ (<= 4.5)
• notepad\+\+ notepad\+\+ (<= 4.6)
• notepad\+\+ notepad\+\+ (<= 4.7)
• notepad\+\+ notepad\+\+ (<= 4.7.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code weakness
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2008-07/0250.html archives.neohapsis.com
- http://www.infobyte.com.ar/down/Francisco%20Amato%20-%20evilgrade%20-%20ENG.pdf www.infobyte.com.ar
- http://www.infobyte.com.ar/down/isr-evilgrade-1.0.0.tar.gz www.infobyte.com.ar
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2008-07/0250.html archives.neohapsis.com
- http://www.infobyte.com.ar/down/Francisco%20Amato%20-%20evilgrade%20-%20ENG.pdf www.infobyte.com.ar
- http://www.infobyte.com.ar/down/isr-evilgrade-1.0.0.tar.gz www.infobyte.com.ar