CVE-2008-3436

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-94 Code Injection

Publication date:

01/08/2008

Last modified:

09/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.50 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0

7.50

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:notepad\+\+:notepad\+\+::::::::		1.0 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:notepad\+\+:notepad\+\+::::::::		1.1 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:notepad\+\+:notepad\+\+::::::::		1.2 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:notepad\+\+:notepad\+\+::::::::		1.3 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:notepad\+\+:notepad\+\+::::::::		1.4 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:notepad\+\+:notepad\+\+::::::::		1.5 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:notepad\+\+:notepad\+\+::::::::		1.6 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:notepad\+\+:notepad\+\+::::::::		1.7 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:notepad\+\+:notepad\+\+::::::::		1.8 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:notepad\+\+:notepad\+\+::::::::		1.9 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:notepad\+\+:notepad\+\+::::::::		2.1 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:notepad\+\+:notepad\+\+::::::::		2.2 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:notepad\+\+:notepad\+\+::::::::		2.3 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:notepad\+\+:notepad\+\+::::::::		2.4 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:notepad\+\+:notepad\+\+::::::::		2.5 (including)

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CVE-2008-3436

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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