Verified groups not reliable
CVE-2021-32665

8.8HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

Wireapp

Status
Wire-ios
Vendor
CVE Published:
3 June 2021

What is CVE-2021-32665?

wire-ios is the iOS version of Wire, an open-source secure messaging app. wire-ios versions 3.8.0 and earlier have a bug in which a conversation could be incorrectly set to "unverified. This occurs when: - Self user is added to a new conversation - Self user is added to an existing conversation - All the participants in the conversation were previously marked as verified. The vulnerability is patched in wire-ios version 3.8.1. As a workaround, one can unverify & verify a device in the conversation.

Affected Version(s)

wire-ios <= 3.8.0

References

https://github.com/wireapp/wire-ios/security/advisories/G...
x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/wireapp/wire-ios-data-model/commit/bf9...
x_refsource_MISC

CVSS V3.1

Score:
8.8
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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