CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2026-23512
High (7.8) in sumatrapdfreader sumatrapdf. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
SumatraPDF is a multi-format reader for Windows. In 3.5.2 and earlier, there is a Untrusted Search Path vulnerability when Advanced Options setting is trigger. The application executes notepad.exe without specifying an absolute path when using the Advanced Options setting. On Windows, this allows execution of a malicious notepad.exe placed in the application's installation directory, leading to arbitrary code execution.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 13% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-426
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- sumatrapdfreader:sumatrapdf