CVE-2026-42448

low

Published 2026-05-26 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

3.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

3.5

Description

Magic Wormhole: receive, with --output pointing at an existing directory can be path-traversed

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

45%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
PyPI	magic-wormhole	`>=0.23.0,<0.24.0`	`0.24.0`
PIP	magic-wormhole	`= 0.23.0`	`0.24.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-22

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.