CVE-2026-2538

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.

References

https://vuldb.com/?submit.749345

https://vuldb.com/?id.346126

https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.346126

https://github.com/Cyber-Wo0dy/report/blob/main/notepad2/4.2.25/notepad2_dll_hijacking.md

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

CVSS v4