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 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.
- Products
- onionshare
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.5-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2022-21696
- 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 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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2022-21696
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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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 323032,
"published_at": "2022-01-18T20:15:07.9+00:00"
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