Overview: 1 vulnerability

WSA Score Severity Issue Vulnerability type Scope Versions Fix Release date
WSA-2026-30 3.7
Incoming files and chats auto-accepted from a nick on the wrong server. Incorrect Comparison Xfer 0.4.1 → 4.10.2 4.10.3

WSA-2026-30: [Xfer] Incoming files and chats auto-accepted from a nick on the wrong server.

Vulnerability
CVE
Not available
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N (detail)
CVSS score
3.7 / 10
Severity
low
Vulnerability type
Incorrect Comparison (detail)
Scope
Xfer
Affected versions
0.4.1 → 4.10.2
Fixed version
4.10.3 () - ChangeLog
Tracker
Not available
Commits
Description
The option xfer.file.auto_accept_nicks is a list of nicks for which incoming files and chats are automatically accepted, with the format server.nick (for a specific server) or nick (for all servers).
For the format server.nick, only the beginning of the server name is compared, so the nick is also auto-accepted on any other server whose name starts with the same chars.
For example with libera.alice, files and chats sent by nick alice are automatically accepted on servers libera, libera2 or libera_test.
On these other servers, any user able to use this nick (which may not be registered there) can send files that are automatically saved in the download directory, or start DCC chats, without confirmation.
Mitigation
There are multiple ways to mitigate this issue: