Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature Affecting notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus package, versions [,8.8.9)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Attacked
EPSS
6.09% (91st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NOTEPADPLUSPLUSNOTEPADPLUSPLUS-14413726
  • published14 Dec 2025
  • disclosed11 Dec 2025
  • creditKevin Beaumont

Introduced: 11 Dec 2025

CVE-2025-15556  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-347  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus to version 8.8.9 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature of the downloaded update file. An attacker in a position to intercept the network traffic between the updater client and the Notepad++ update infrastructure can prompt the updater to download and execute an unwanted binary.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1