🛡️ CVE-2022-46330
🟠 CVSS 7.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-427 NVD
7.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Squirrel.Windows is both a toolset and a library that provides installation and update functionality for Windows desktop applications. Installers generated by Squirrel.Windows 2.0.1 and earlier contain an issue with the DLL search path, which may lead to insecurely loading Dynamic Link Libraries. As a result, arbitrary code may be executed with the privilege of the user invoking the installer.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-427
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-12-21
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2025-04-16

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
squirrel.windows 2.0.1

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