Is CVE-2026-85995 being exploited?

No public exploit is currently tracked.

How severe is CVE-2026-85995?

CVE-2026-85995 has a CVSS v3 severity of HIGH (7.3).

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CVE-2026-85995

Description

Notepad++ is a free and open-source source code editor. From 8.9.7 until 8.9.8, the Notepad++ updater and signature verification path can accept a modified GUP.exe file whose embedded certificate metadata remains present even though its Authenticode digest is invalid. An attacker who can replace or plant the updater-related file can cause Notepad++ to launch attacker-modified code when a user triggers the updater path, but the issue does not provide remote code execution by itself. This issue is fixed in version 8.9.8.