CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-2538

7.3 HIGH Published 2026-02-16 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Deferred
Published
2026-02-16
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
7.3 HIGH — 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/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.0 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-426, CWE-427

Description

A security flaw has been discovered in Flos Freeware Notepad2 4.2.22/4.2.23/4.2.24/4.2.25. Affected is an unknown function in the library Msimg32.dll. Performing a manipulation results in uncontrolled search path. Attacking locally is a requirement. The attack's complexity is rated as high. The exploitability is told to be difficult. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path weakness
  • CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element weakness

References