Description
Impact
A receiver who specifies "--output <dir>" where that output directory currently exists (as a directory).
Patches
0.24.0 will contain the patch
Workarounds
Ensure local target directories specified by "--output" do not already exist
Resources
Private email and Signal communications from a user.
Magic Wormhole thanks @marduc812
Basic information
- Type
- reviewed
- Severity
- low
- Advisory on GitHub
- Open advisory ↗
- Repository advisory
- Open repository advisory ↗
- Source code
- Browse source ↗
- Published (advisory)
- 2026-05-06 20:40:17 UTC
- Updated
- 2026-06-08 23:28:05 UTC
- GitHub reviewed
- 2026-05-06 20:40:17 UTC
- NVD published
- 2026-05-26
EPSS Score
| Score |
Percentile |
|
0.04%
|
11.23% |
CVSS Scores
| Base score |
Version |
Severity |
Vector |
|
3.5
|
3.1 |
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|
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
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- Attack vector (AV:N)
- Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
- Attack complexity (AC:L)
- Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
- Privileges required (PR:L)
- A normal user session is enough; they don’t have to be admin.
- User interaction (UI:R)
- A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
- Scope (S:U)
- Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
- Confidentiality (C:N)
- Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
- Integrity (I:L)
- Attackers could change some data, but it’s limited—not everything goes.
- Availability (A:N)
- Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
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CWEs
| CWE id |
Name |
|
CWE-22
|
Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') |
Affected packages (1)
Vulnerable version ranges and first patched releases as published by GitHub.
| Ecosystem |
Package |
Vulnerable range |
First patched |
Vulnerable functions |
| pip |
magic-wormhole |
= 0.23.0 |
0.24.0 |
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