CVE-2026-32733CWE-22

Halloy has a file transfer path traveral vulnerability

High · published March 20, 2026

CVSS v4.0
8.7
EPSS
0%
Percentile
39.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Halloy is an IRC application written in Rust. Prior to commit 0f77b2cfc5f822517a256ea5a4b94bad8bfe38b6, the DCC receive flow did not sanitize filenames from incoming `DCC SEND` requests. A remote IRC user could send a filename with path traversal sequences like `../../.ssh/authorized_keys` and the file would be written outside the user's configured `save_directory`. With auto-accept enabled this required zero interaction from the victim. Starting with commit 0f77b2cfc5f822517a256ea5a4b94bad8bfe38b6, all identified code paths sanitize filenames through a shared `sanitize_filename` function.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
8.7 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00468 · 39.5th percentile
Weakness
CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Published
2026-03-20T22:37Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 20 MAR 22:37Z
    Halloy has a file transfer path traveral vulnerability
    cvelistv5