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SCA: security update for onionshare-cli (GHSA-68vr-8f46-vc9f)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 411316

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 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. (CVE-2022-21696)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-68vr-8f46-vc9f

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 411316

Version: Revision 1.7

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: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-21696

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Threat Score: 1.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/21/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/18/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-21696

cwe: CWE-20