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Informational 20 Cryptographic libraries

simplewallet: add wallet-dir flag

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What the developer wrote

Authored by jpk68

60/100 · Adequate
simplewallet: add wallet-dir flag

Co-authored-by: SNeedlewoods <sneedlewoods_1@protonmail.com>
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit adds a new --wallet-dir command-line option to the Monero command-line wallet (monero-wallet-cli). It lets users specify a single directory where wallet files should be looked for and saved. The change is a convenience/usability feature and does not appear to fix a security bug or introduce a dangerous capability. The code only accepts absolute paths for the directory and ignores the option if an absolute wallet-file path is given, which reduces the chance of tricking the wallet into writing files somewhere unexpected.

Recommended action

No immediate security action required. Treat as a normal feature addition. If reviewing for hardening, consider validating that wallet_dir points to an existing directory and that resolved paths remain within wallet_dir (defense against path traversal via crafted relative filenames), and ensure wallet_dir permissions are checked before writing sensitive wallet files.

Security signals we found

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New CLI argument that influences filesystem path resolution

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Absolute-path requirement for wallet_dir is enforced in code

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Relative wallet filenames are resolved against the configured directory

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No input sanitization beyond absolute-path check and boost::filesystem path join

Risk score

Why this scored 20/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 2/30
Exploitability 2/25
Stealth signal 1/15
Affected reach 3/15
Confidence 8/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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