CVE-2022-45305: Chocolatey PYTHON3

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Insecure permissions in Chocolatey Python3 package v3.11.0 and below grants all users in the Authenticated Users group write privileges for the subfolder C:\Python311 and all files located in that folder.

Affected products

• Chocolatey Chocolatey PYTHON3: up to and including 3.11.0

Published 2022-11-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.