CVE-2026-42448

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-42448
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-42448.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-42448
Aliases
Published
2026-05-26T17:57:20.946Z
Modified
2026-07-08T08:13:19.360177839Z
Severity
  • 3.5 (Low) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
wormhole receive, with --output pointing at an existing directory can be path-traversed
Details

Magic Wormhole makes it possible to get arbitrary-sized files and directories from one computer to another. Prior to 0.24.0, there is a path traversal when a receiver who specifies "--output <dir>" where that output directory currently exists (as a directory). This vulnerability is fixed in 0.24.0.

Database specific 
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/42xxx/CVE-2026-42448.json",
    "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-22"
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
3bf46e020341ff966aa1ca58d7260005256c1a8f
Database specific 
{
    "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "0.24.0"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

0.*
0.0.1
0.0.2
0.0.3
0.0.4
0.0.5
0.0.6
0.1.0
0.10.0
0.10.1
0.10.2
0.10.3
0.10.4
0.10.5
0.11.0
0.11.1
0.11.2
0.12.0
0.19.2
0.2.0
0.3.0
0.4.0
0.5.0
0.6.0
0.6.1
0.6.2
0.6.3
0.7.0
0.7.5
0.7.6
0.8.0
0.8.1
0.8.2
0.9.0
0.9.1
0.9.2

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-42448.json"