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CVE-2022-41141

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-41141 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Windscribe installations. It stems from the product loading an OpenSSL configuration file from an unsecured location, allowing a low-privileged attacker to inject malicious code. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), indicating that an attacker with local access can achieve SYSTEM-level arbitrary code execution with low attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.3.16CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:windscribe:windscribe:2.3.16:*:*:*:*:windows:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.37%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
29.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0037 is in the 68th percentile among its peer group of 17,061 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

windscribe.com / changelog/windows
Release NotesVendor Advisory
zerodayinitiative.com / advisories/ZDI-22-1300
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry