CVE-2022-29168

Cross Site Scripting in Wire Messages

State
Published
Severity
9.6 Critical
Published
Jun 25, 2022
Updated
Apr 23, 2025
Reserved
Apr 13, 2022

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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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.19.6 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
  • CWE-80 Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS)

Affected Products

ProductVersions
wire-webappwireapp
  • < 022-05-04-production.0Affected
  • < 2022-05-04-production.0-v0.29.7-0-a6f2dedAffected

References

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