CVE-2022-21695

Improper Access Control in Onionshare

State: Published
Severity: 4.3 Medium
Published: Jan 18, 2022
Updated: Apr 23, 2025
Reserved: Nov 16, 2021

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 authenticated users (or unauthenticated in public mode) can send messages without being visible in the list of chat participants. This issue has been resolved in version 2.5.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	4.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-287 Improper Authentication

Affected Products

Product	Versions
onionshareonionshare	< 2.5Affected

References

https://github.com/onionshare/onionshare/releases/tag/v2.5
https://github.com/onionshare/onionshare/security/advisories/GHSA-99p8-9p2c-49j4

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