Medium severity · published Jun 25, 2022
CVE-2022-29168
Wire is a secure messaging application
6.1
CVSS
0.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Wire is a secure messaging application. Wire is vulnerable to arbitrary HTML and Javascript execution via insufficient escaping when rendering `@mentions` in the wire-webapp. If a user receives and views a malicious message, arbitrary code is injected and executed in the context of the victim allowing the attacker to fully control the user account. Wire-desktop clients that are connected to a vulnerable wire-webapp version are also vulnerable to this attack. The issue has been fixed in wire-webapp 2022-05-04-production.0 and is already deployed on all Wire managed services. On-premise instances of wire-webapp need to be updated to docker tag 2022-05-04-production.0-v0.29.7-0-a6f2ded or wire-server 2022-05-04 (chart/4.11.0) or later. No known workarounds exist.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.9% · higher than 58% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
WI
Wire-webapp · Wire
2016-07-29-17-00; 2016-08-04-15-44; 2016-08-23-09-31; 2016-08-24-10-10; 2016-08-29-14-54; 2016-09-08-15-38; +34 more · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-29168
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-29168
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/wireapp/wire-webapp/security/advisories/GHSA-jgv3-4j56-fvh6
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