Halloy has insecure file permissions on credential files
Halloy is an IRC application written in Rust. In versions on \*nix and macOS prior to commit f180e41061db393acf65bc99f5c5e7397586d9cb, halloy creates its config directory and files using default umask permissions, which typically results in `0644` on files and `0755` on directories. This allows any local user on the system to read plaintext credentials stored in `config.toml` or referenced `password_file` paths. Commit f180e41061db393acf65bc99f5c5e7397586d9cb patches the issue.
References
Affected products
- ==<= 2026.4
Package maintainers
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@iivusly iivusly <iivusly@icloud.com>
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@hexadecimalDinosaur Ivy Fan-Chiang <dev@ivyfanchiang.ca>
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@fabaff Fabian Affolter <mail@fabian-affolter.ch>