Vulnerability · Published Jun 25, 2022 · Assigned by GitHub_M
CVE-2022-29168Cross Site Scripting in Wire Messages
Critical 9.6
In plain English
A critical-severity cross-site scripting in wire-webapp from wireapp. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.9% (higher than 59% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official 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.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| wireapp | wire-webapp | < 022-05-04-production.0< 2022-05-04-production.0-v0.29.7-0-a6f2ded |
Weakness: CWE-79, CWE-80 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
References
- https://github.com/wireapp/wire-webapp/security/advisories/GHSA-jgv3-4j56-fvh6 x_refsource_CONFIRM