Vulnerability · Published Oct 30, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M
CVE-2026-119298croc: Overwrite-confirmation bypass via a crafted "croc-stdin-" filename on receive
Medium 4.2
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in croc from schollz. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 23% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
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.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-73 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
References
- https://github.com/schollz/croc/security/advisories/GHSA-x89h-7h96-v88f x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/schollz/croc/pull/1327 x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/schollz/croc/commit/25fe49b6f14db99f517e902cfef76299ad0a95a3 x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/schollz/croc/releases/tag/v11.5.2 x_refsource_MISC