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onionshare — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2022-21690

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

DEBIAN-CVE-2022-21690

core-osv · Original source

Published 18 Jan 2022, 23:15 UTC

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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