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1 vulnerability by magic-wormhole_project
CVE-2026-32116 (GCVE-0-2026-32116)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-12 17:40 – Updated: 2026-03-13 16:24
VLAI
Title
Magic Wormhole: "wormhole receive" allows arbitrary local file overwrite
Summary
Magic Wormhole makes it possible to get arbitrary-sized files and directories from one computer to another. From 0.21.0 to before 0.23.0, receiving a file (wormhole receive) from a malicious party could result in overwriting critical local files, including ~/.ssh/authorized_keys and .bashrc. This could be used to compromise the receiver's computer. Only the sender of the file (the party who runs wormhole send) can mount the attack. Other parties (including the transit/relay servers) are excluded by the wormhole protocol. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.23.0.
Severity
CWE
- CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Assigner
References
1 reference
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole/… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| magic-wormhole | magic-wormhole |
Affected:
>= 0.21.0, < 0.23.0
|
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