CVE-2016-7838: Winsparkle

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Untrusted search path vulnerability in WinSparkle versions prior to 0.5.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted executable file in an unspecified directory.

Affected products

• Winsparkle Winsparkle: up to and including 0.5.2

Published 2017-06-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.