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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2022-46330

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.

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CVEs
CVE-2022-46330
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3 Nov 2026, 10:53 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2022-46330

core-osv · Original source

Published 21 Dec 2022, 00:00 UTC

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.

osv:CVE-2022-46330
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-46330",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "CVE-2022-46330",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2022-46330",
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    "severity": "high",
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          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
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                    "strategy": "VersionTextExtraction"
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:28.024029405Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN29902403/index.html",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/46xxx/CVE-2022-46330.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-46330",
        "https://github.com/Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows/pull/1807",
        "https://github.com/Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows"
      ],
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
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  "published_at": "2022-12-21T00:00:00+00:00"
}