A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Squirrel up to 3.2. This affects the function SQFunctionProto::Load of the file squirrel/sqobject.cpp. This manipulation causes heap-based buffer overflow.

This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-8261. The attack is restricted to local execution. Moreover, an exploit is present.

The project was informed of the problem early through an issue report but has not responded yet.