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High severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 12, 2026· Updated Mar 13, 2026

Magic Wormhole: "wormhole receive" allows arbitrary local file overwrite

CVE-2026-32116

Description

Magic Wormhole makes it possible to get arbitrary-sized files and directories from one computer to another. From 0.21.0 to before 0.23.0, receiving a file (wormhole receive) from a malicious party could result in overwriting critical local files, including ~/.ssh/authorized_keys and .bashrc. This could be used to compromise the receiver's computer. Only the sender of the file (the party who runs wormhole send) can mount the attack. Other parties (including the transit/relay servers) are excluded by the wormhole protocol. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.23.0.

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Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
magic-wormholePyPI
>= 0.21.0, < 0.23.00.23.0

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