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CVE-2016-5026
hs.py in OnionShare before 0.9.1 allows local users to modify the hiddenservice by pre-creating the /tmp/onionshare directory.
Medium5.5EPSS 0.33%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
hs.py in OnionShare before 0.9.1 allows local users to modify the hiddenservice by pre-creating the /tmp/onionshare directory.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 8 months later
· 8 months later
Published
- 8 years later
· 8 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.33% · top 74% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (4)
- [oss-security] 20160523 CVE request: /tmp usage race condition in onionshare (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://github.com/micahflee/onionshare (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 90821 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20160524 Re: CVE request: /tmp usage race condition in onionshare (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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