CVE-2026-3008 (GCVE-0-2026-3008)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-27 06:04 – Updated: 2026-04-27 13:29
VLAI?
Title
Vulnerability in Notepad++
Summary
Successful exploitation of the
string injection vulnerability could allow an attacker to obtain memory address
information or crash the application.
Severity ?
6.6 (Medium)
CWE
- CWE-134 - Use of Externally-Controlled Format String
Assigner
References
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Sightings
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Nomenclature
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