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High · 8.7 CVE-2026-32733 EUVD-2026-13863

Halloy has a file transfer path traveral vulnerability

Published Mar 20, 2026 · Updated Mar 24, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
squidowl halloy <= 2026.4 —

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