Improper Access Control The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package onionshare  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1904-ONIONSHARE-665656
  • published30 Jan 2017
  • disclosed30 Jan 2017

Introduced: 30 Jan 2017

CVE-2016-5026  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream onionshare package and not the onionshare package as distributed by Ubuntu.

hs.py in OnionShare before 0.9.1 allows local users to modify the hiddenservice by pre-creating the /tmp/onionshare directory.