CVE-2022-21696

MEDIUM

OnionShare < 2.5 - Username Spoofing via Trailing Whitespace

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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 it is possible to change the username to that of another chat participant with an additional space character at the end of the name string. An adversary with access to the chat environment can use the rename feature to impersonate other participants by adding whitespace characters at the end of the username.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Release Notes, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/onionshare/onionshare/releases/tag/v2.5

Scores

CVSS v3 4.3
EPSS 0.0071
EPSS Percentile 48.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (2)
onionshare/onionshare < 2.5
pypi/onionshare-cli 2.3 - 2.5PyPI
Published Jan 18, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026