CVE-2008-3436

CVE-2008-3436 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

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