CVE-2026-54706

Summary OnionShare CLI/Desktop 2.6.3 can follow symbolic links inside a selected Share or Website directory and serve the symlink target rather than limiting access to files physically contained in the selected directory. If a user shares a directory that contains attacker-supplied or otherwise untrusted symlinks, a remote recipient with access to the OnionShare service can read arbitrary local files readable by the OnionShare process that the symlink points to. This affects the shipped onionshare-cli Python package and the desktop application because both call the same onionshare_cli.web file-indexing and streaming code. Details Tested repository: https://github.com/onionshare/onionshare at commit 8cc75e1d7e88bd31f7276733449d412bf71c8999. Affected product evidence: - cli/pyproject.toml declares onionshare_cli version 2.6.3. - desktop/pyproject.toml declares onionshare version 2.6.3 and depends on onionshare_cli from ../cli. - cli/setup.py publishes onionshare-cli and includes onionshare_cli.web plus templates/static resources. - desktop/setup.py publishes onionshare and exposes both onionshare and onionshare-cli console scripts. Reachable default/common paths: - CLI share mode is the default mode when no --receive, --website, or --chat flag is provided (cli/onionshare_cli/init.py:234-241) and accepts filesystem paths from CLI arguments (cli/onionshare_cli/init.py:184-189). - CLI website mode is exposed through --website (cli/onionshare_cli/init.py:55-59). - Desktop Website mode calls self.web.website_mode.set_file_info(self.filenames) before starting (desktop/onionshare/tab/mode/website_mode/init.py:281-287). Desktop Share mode calls self.mode.web.share_mode.set_file_info(...) before serving (desktop/onionshare/tab/mode/share_mode/threads.py:42-49). - Documentation describes Website mode as selecting files/folders and serving them over OnionShare (docs/source/features.rst:109-115). Root cause: - SendBaseModeWeb.set_file_info() expands a single selected directo

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