PT-2026-38266

CVE-2026-42448

Published

2026-05-06

Updated

2026-07-24

Description by

CVSS 3.1

3.5

Low

MetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Magic Wormhole versions prior to 0.24.0

Description A path traversal issue exists when a receiver uses the --output <dir> option and the specified output directory already exists on the system. Path traversal is a flaw that allows an attacker to access files or directories outside the intended folder by using special characters like dot-dot-slash (../).

Recommendations Update to version 0.24.0. Ensure local target directories specified by --output do not already exist.

Exploitability

Exploit

Fix

Impacts

Researchers

Marduc812

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (\'Path Traversal\')

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