Security advisory

{
  "id": "c94355d72e3147f7d9342b42f18f1ec8f47869c90134212d4be824f1f0dda9ea",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-47452",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2023-47452",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2023-47452",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "unknown",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2023-47452",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2023-47452"
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "5d900beba2dad076cd58c3cf52d173a11fb182a2"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "5d900beba2dad076cd58c3cf52d173a11fb182a2"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:notepad-plus-plus:notepad\\+\\+:6.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "6.5"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "6.5"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "6.5",
            "v6.5"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-47452.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:48.537806544Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/xieqiang11/poc-1/tree/main",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/47xxx/CVE-2023-47452.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-47452"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cna_assigner": "mitre",
        "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/47xxx/CVE-2023-47452.json"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2023-47452",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": null
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 517060,
  "published_at": "2023-11-30T00:00:00+00:00"
}