cve-2025-56383
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-09-26 00:00
Modified
2025-09-30 03:55
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EPSS score ?
Summary
Notepad++ v8.8.3 has a DLL hijacking vulnerability, which can replace the original DLL file to execute malicious code.
References
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