CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-119298

MediumCVSS 4.2
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.30%

23th percentile - higher than 23% of all known CVEs

Summary

croc, a tool for securely transferring files and folders between computers, prior to 11.5.2 treats any sender-controlled basename beginning with croc-stdin- as a trusted text-transfer artifact in the receive-side file-readiness loop (src/croc/croc.go), even when SendingText is false. This skips askReceiveOverwrite and rename handling for a predictable exact-name collision in the receiver's working directory, allowing a remote sender whose transfer the user accepts to overwrite, truncate, or replace a matching file without confirmation.

Risk Assessment

A remote sender whose transfer the user accepts can overwrite or remove an existing file in the receive directory without confirmation. Impact is limited to predictable names in the croc-stdin- namespace.

Recommendation

Upgrade croc to version 11.5.2 or later. Until then, avoid accepting transfers from untrusted senders into directories containing important files.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

croc is a tool that allows any two computers to simply and securely transfer files and folders. Prior to 11.5.2, the receive-side file-readiness loop in src/croc/croc.go treats any sender-controlled basename beginning with croc-stdin- as a trusted text-transfer artifact even when SendingText is false. This skips askReceiveOverwrite and rename handling for a predictable exact-name collision in the receiver's working directory, allowing a remote sender whose transfer the user accepts to overwrite or truncate a matching regular file through recipientInitializeFile, or to remove and replace a matching destination with an empty file or an in-directory symlink through createEmptyFileAndFinish, without confirmation. The impact is limited to pre-existing names in the croc-stdin- namespace that the sender can predict; other filenames retain the prompt, dotfiles outside that namespace are not reachable, and symlink targets remain confined to the receive directory. This issue is fixed in version 11.5.2.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS