{"id":77207,"date":"2026-02-16T09:32:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T06:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-2538-flos-freeware-notepad2-msimg32-dll-uncontrolled-search-path\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T09:32:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T06:02:06","slug":"cve-2026-2538-flos-freeware-notepad2-msimg32-dll-uncontrolled-search-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-2538-flos-freeware-notepad2-msimg32-dll-uncontrolled-search-path\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-2538 &#8211; Flos Freeware Notepad2 Msimg32.dll uncontrolled search path"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2026-2538<\/p>\n<p>Published :  Feb. 16, 2026, 6:02 a.m. | 32\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>Description : A security flaw has been discovered in Flos Freeware Notepad2 4.2.22\/4.2.23\/4.2.24\/4.2.25. Affected is an unknown function in the library Msimg32.dll. Performing a manipulation results in uncontrolled search path. Attacking locally is a requirement. The attack&#8217;s complexity is rated as high. The exploitability is told to be difficult. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.<\/p>\n<p>Severity: 0.0 | NA<\/p>\n<p>Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2026-2538 Published : Feb. 16, 2026, 6:02 a.m. | 32\u00a0minutes ago Description : A security flaw has been discovered in Flos Freeware Notepad2 4.2.22\/4.2.23\/4.2.24\/4.2.25. Affected is an unknown function in the library Msimg32.dll. Performing a manipulation results in uncontrolled search path. Attacking locally is a requirement. The attack&#8217;s complexity is rated as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}