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.
https://github.com/squidowl/halloy/security/advisories/GHSA-fqrv-rfg4-rv89
https://github.com/squidowl/halloy/commit/0f77b2cfc5f822517a256ea5a4b94bad8bfe38b6
Published: 2026-03-20
Updated: 2026-03-23
Base Score: 6.8
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:C/A:N
Severity: Medium
Base Score: 6.5
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Severity: Medium
Base Score: 8.7
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
Severity: High
EPSS: 0.00046