onionshare — security advisory
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.
- Products
- onionshare
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.5-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2022-21690
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 30 Oct 2026, 14:41 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2022-21690
onionshare
Fixed versions: 2.5-1
onionshare
Fixed versions: 2.5-1
onionshare
Fixed versions: 2.5-1
Complete source record
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