CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-3436

7.5 HIGH Published 2008-08-01 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
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