CVE-2022-21690

Cross-Site Scripting in Onionshare

Published: Jan 18, 2022Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSACWE-79

8.7HIGH

Description

OnionShare is an open source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share files, host websites, and chat with friends using the Tor network. In affected versions The path parameter of the requested URL is not sanitized before being passed to the QT frontend. This path is used in all components for displaying the server access history. This leads to a rendered HTML4 Subset (QT RichText editor) in the Onionshare frontend.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

Exploitability

AV:NAttack Vector

Network

AC:LAttack Complexity

Low

PR:LPrivileges Required

Low

UI:RUser Interaction

Required

Scope

S:CScope

Changed

Impact

C:HConfidentiality

High

I:HIntegrity

High

A:NAvailability

None

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Weaknesses

CWE-79

Affected Products

onionshare

oss-projectaka onionshare tool

onionshareMixed

Consumer Software / file-utility

PyPI

package-ecosystem

onionshare-cli

OSS Libraries

Exploitability

Official Patch Available

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MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques

Execution

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References

https://github.com/onionshare/onionshare/releases/tag/v2.5

github.com

https://github.com/onionshare/onionshare/security/advisories/GHSA-ch22-x2v3-v6vq

github.com

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-21690

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