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GHSA-68VR-8F46-VC9F

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-01-21 23:20 – Updated: 2024-10-08 12:39

Summary

Username spoofing in OnionShare

Details

Between September 26, 2021 and October 8, 2021, Radically Open Security conducted a penetration test of OnionShare 2.4, funded by the Open Technology Fund's Red Team lab. This is an issue from that penetration test.

Vulnerability ID: OTF-005
Vulnerability type: Improper Input Sanitization
Threat level: Low

Description:

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.

Technical description:

Assumed users in Chat:

Alice
Bob
Mallory
Mallory renames to Alice.
Mallory sends message as Alice.
Alice and Bob receive a message from Mallory disguised as Alice, which is hard to distinguish from the Alice in the web interface.

otf-005-a otf-005-b

Other (invisible) whitespace characters were found to be working as well.

Impact:

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.

Recommendation:

Remove non-visible characters from the username

Severity

4.3 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

5.3 (Medium)


                  
                    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

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  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "PyPI",
        "name": "onionshare-cli"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "2.3"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2.5"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2022-21696"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-20"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2022-01-19T19:41:55Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2022-01-18T20:15:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "Between September 26, 2021 and October 8, 2021, [Radically Open Security](https://www.radicallyopensecurity.com/) conducted a penetration test of OnionShare 2.4, funded by the Open Technology Fund\u0027s [Red Team lab](https://www.opentech.fund/labs/red-team-lab/). This is an issue from that penetration test.\n\n- Vulnerability ID: OTF-005\n- Vulnerability type: Improper Input Sanitization\n- Threat level: Low\n\n## Description:\n\nIt is possible to change the username to that of another chat participant with an additional space character at the end of the name string.\n\n## Technical description:\n\nAssumed users in Chat:\n\n- Alice\n- Bob\n- Mallory\n\n1. Mallory renames to `Alice `.\n2. Mallory sends message as `Alice `.\n3. Alice and Bob receive a message from Mallory disguised as `Alice `, which is hard to distinguish from the `Alice`\nin the web interface.\n\n![otf-005-a](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/156128/140666112-8febd4d8-6761-41aa-955c-48be76f3c657.png)\n![otf-005-b](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/156128/140666113-1713ddf7-cef6-4dac-b718-9af1dc4ffdcd.png)\n\nOther (invisible) whitespace characters were found to be working as well.\n\n## Impact:\n\nAn 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.\n\n## Recommendation:\n\n- Remove non-visible characters from the username",
  "id": "GHSA-68vr-8f46-vc9f",
  "modified": "2024-10-08T12:39:16Z",
  "published": "2022-01-21T23:20:14Z",
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    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/onionshare/onionshare/security/advisories/GHSA-68vr-8f46-vc9f"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-21696"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/onionshare/onionshare"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/onionshare/onionshare/releases/tag/v2.5"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/onionshare-cli/PYSEC-2022-47.yaml"
    }
  ],
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      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "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",
      "type": "CVSS_V4"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "Username spoofing in OnionShare"
}

CVE-2022-21696 (GCVE-0-2022-21696)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-01-18 19:55 – Updated: 2025-04-23 19:11

Title

Username spoofing in OnionShare

Summary

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.

Severity

4.3 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-04-23 14:12 UTC

CWE

CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/onionshare/onionshare/security…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/onionshare/onionshare/releases…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
onionshare	onionshare	Affected: < 2.5

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PYSEC-2022-47

Vulnerability from pysec - Published: 2022-01-18 20:15 - Updated: 2022-03-09 00:16

Details

Impacted products

Name	purl
onionshare-cli	pkg:pypi/onionshare-cli

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  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "PyPI",
        "name": "onionshare-cli",
        "purl": "pkg:pypi/onionshare-cli"
      },
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            {
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      "url": "https://github.com/onionshare/onionshare/releases/tag/v2.5"
    }
  ]
}

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