CVE-2023-47452

highpriority · track · 31EPSS 0.005 · 45 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.53% (45th) EPSS

CVSS 7.8 · high

Is it mine?

3 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

An Untrusted search path vulnerability in notepad++ 6.5 allows local users to gain escalated privileges through the msimg32.dll file in the current working directory.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.17.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.8 · impact 5.9

v3.17.1highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-427USprimary

affected products (3)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Open Source Notepad++ 6.5all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:notepad_plus_plus:notepad%2B%2B:6.5
n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
notepad-plus-plus notepad++= 6.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:notepad-plus-plus:notepad\+\+:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2023-3040Notepad++: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2023-11-30csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein lokaler Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Notepad++ ausnutzen, um seine Privilegien zu erhöhen oder um einen unspezifischen Angriff durchzuführen.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd cert_bund nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2023-11-30modified 2026-06-17

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references (3)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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