SCA: security update for onionshare-cli (GHSA-ch22-x2v3-v6vq)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 413903

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- 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. (CVE-2022-21690)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-ch22-x2v3-v6vq

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 413903

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-21690

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Threat Score: 5.2

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/21/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/18/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-21690

cwe: CWE-79