GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-68vr-8f46-vc9f Username spoofing in OnionShare
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2022-21696
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- onionshare-cli
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
- Reviewed
- 2022-01-19
Affected packages
• PyPI onionshare-cli: >= 2.3, < 2.5 → fixed in 2.5
Description
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
1. Mallory renames to `Alice `.
2. Mallory sends message as `Alice `.
3. Alice and Bob receive a message from Mallory disguised as `Alice `, which is hard to distinguish from the `Alice`
in the web interface.
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
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2022-21696 OnionShare is an open source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share files, host websites, and chat with friends using the Tor… vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- https://github.com/onionshare/onionshare/security/advisories/GHSA-68vr-8f46-vc9f web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-21696 advisory
- https://github.com/onionshare/onionshare package
- https://github.com/onionshare/onionshare/releases/tag/v2.5 web
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/onionshare-cli/PYSEC-2022-47.yaml web