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A severe privilege escalation vulnerability has been discovered in the popular Notepad++ version 8.8.1.
A severe local privilege escalation vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-49144, was discovered in Notepad++ version 8.8.1, released on May 5, 2025. This flaw resides in the Notepad++ installer and allows unprivileged users to gain SYSTEM-level privileges on Windows systems through an uncontrolled executable search path, also known as binary planting.
