CVE-2026-42448

low

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

CVSS v3

3.5

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

CVSS v2

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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 vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

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

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