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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2022-21689 json

Denial of Service in Onionshare

published 2022-01-18 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-jh82-c5jw-pxpc , PYSEC-2022-40 , EUVD-2022-0180

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.3%
EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 71%
public exploits
0
none known

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 the receive mode limits concurrent uploads to 100 per second and blocks other uploads in the same second, which can be triggered by a simple script. An adversary with access to the receive mode can block file upload for others. There is no way to block this attack in public mode due to the anonymity properties of the tor network.

Patch / fix

  • pypi onionshare-cli 2.5
  • onionshare onionshare 2.5
  • onionshare Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.5-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-21689

  • onionshare Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS 2.2-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
  • onionshare Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS 2.2-3ubuntu0.1~esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-21689

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-21689 updated cvss 7.5

onionshare: possibility to block file upload for other users

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
18 mo ago

Exploit prediction

1.35% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 71% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi onionshare-cli
<2.5
2.5

Affected products

  • onionshare onionshare

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

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