{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-46710 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2026-46710 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2026-46710 is a high-severity vulnerability in notepad-plus-plus, published on 26 Jun 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-46710 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-46710 is a high-severity vulnerability in notepad-plus-plus, published on 26 Jun 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-46710 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: notepad-plus-plus. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-46710/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-46710/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-46710","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-46710/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-46710","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-6f8f-vmfc-r8c5"],"analysis":{"component_type":"desktop_application","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["privilege_escalation","code_execution"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"Notepad++ editor","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Local attackers can escalate privileges by placing a malicious executable in a custom installation directory before a privileged user runs the installer.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"privilege_escalation"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"GitHub_M","cpe":[{"product":"notepad\\+\\+","vendor":"notepad-plus-plus"}],"cvss":{"score":7.5,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","version":"4.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-426","name":"Untrusted Search Path"}],"description":"Notepad++ is a free and open-source source code editor. From 8.9.4 until 8.9.6, Notepad++ contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the installer. During installation, the installer invokes powershell.exe without using an absolute path after setting the working directory to the installation contextMenu directory. If an attacker can pre-place a malicious powershell.exe in a user-writable custom installation directory, and a privileged user later runs the installer and selects that directory, the attacker-controlled executable is launched with the elevated privileges of the installer. This vulnerability is fixed in 8.9.6.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":false,"headline":"Notepad++: Privilege Escalation in the Installer via Uncontrolled Executable Search Path","id":"CVE-2026-46710","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"privilege_escalation","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"Missing authorization in security","id":"CVE-2026-46711"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Tabby: Drag-and-drop path injection still allows RCE via shell command substitution (incomplete fix for CVE-2026-45038)","id":"CVE-2026-46709"},"products":["notepad-plus-plus"],"published":"2026-06-26","related":[{"cvss_score":7.7,"headline":"Notepad++ Download of Code Without Integrity Check","id":"CVE-2025-15556","kev_date_added":"2026-02-12","published":"2026-02-03"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Notepad++: Arbitrary Code Execution via config.xml commandLineInterpreter","id":"CVE-2026-48778","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-06-26"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Notepad++: Arbitrary Code Execution via shortcuts.xml UserCommand Injection","id":"CVE-2026-48800","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-06-26"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Notepad++: CVE-2026-48800 Bypass","id":"CVE-2026-52884","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-06-26"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Privilege escalation in n/a","id":"CVE-2023-47452","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-11-30"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Notepad++ vulnerable to heap buffer write overflow in Utf8_16_Read::convert","id":"CVE-2023-40031","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-08-25"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"notepad-plus-plus - DLL Hijacking","id":"CVE-2022-32168","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2022-09-28"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-06-29","vendors":["notepad-plus-plus"]},"summary":"Local attackers can escalate privileges by placing a malicious executable in a custom installation directory before a privileged user runs the installer.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-46710/"}