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.