CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-29168

6.1 MEDIUM Published 2022-06-25 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-06-25
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.6 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.1 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-79, CWE-80

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 configurations

• wire wire-webapp 2016-07-29-17-00 • wire wire-webapp 2016-08-04-15-44 • wire wire-webapp 2016-08-23-09-31 • wire wire-webapp 2016-08-24-10-10 • wire wire-webapp 2016-08-29-14-54 • wire wire-webapp 2016-09-08-15-38 • wire wire-webapp 2016-09-19-14-01 • wire wire-webapp 2016-09-28-14-58 • wire wire-webapp 2016-10-11-15-34 • wire wire-webapp 2016-10-18-08-10 • wire wire-webapp 2016-10-25-08-17 • wire wire-webapp 2016-10-26-18-58 • wire wire-webapp 2016-11-03-16-09 • wire wire-webapp 2016-11-08-15-06 • wire wire-webapp 2016-12-01-12-57 • wire wire-webapp 2016-12-13-15-12 • wire wire-webapp 2017-01-23-12-12 • wire wire-webapp 2017-02-01-14-49 • wire wire-webapp 2017-02-17-10-10 • wire wire-webapp 2017-02-24-13-06 • wire wire-webapp 2017-03-08-17-32 • wire wire-webapp 2017-03-14-15-05 • wire wire-webapp 2017-03-21-11-00 • wire wire-webapp 2017-03-27-17-10 • wire wire-webapp 2017-03-28-14-23 • wire wire-webapp 2017-04-05-16-58 • wire wire-webapp 2017-04-07-09-42 • wire wire-webapp 2017-04-19-12-31 • wire wire-webapp 2017-04-20-15-54 • wire wire-webapp 2017-05-03-10-29 • wire wire-webapp 2017-05-19-16-10 • wire wire-webapp 2017-05-26-08-16 • wire wire-webapp 2017-05-26-12-03 • wire wire-webapp 2017-06-01-10-02 • wire wire-webapp 2017-06-07-15-03 • wire wire-webapp 2017-06-07-18-05 • wire wire-webapp 2017-06-22-12-18 • wire wire-webapp 2017-06-28-15-13 • wire wire-webapp 2017-07-06-12-44 • wire wire-webapp 2017-07-06-15-48 • wire wire-webapp 2017-07-18-12-50 • wire wire-webapp 2017-08-03-15-19 • wire wire-webapp 2017-08-04-09-04 • wire wire-webapp 2017-08-04-15-01 • wire wire-webapp 2017-08-08-15-09 • wire wire-webapp 2017-08-24-10-57 • wire wire-webapp 2017-08-31-14-21 • wire wire-webapp 2017-09-26-07-18 • wire wire-webapp 2017-09-26-13-00 • wire wire-webapp 2017-10-09-08-42 • wire wire-webapp 2017-10-19-10-45 • wire wire-webapp 2017-10-25-07-08 • wire wire-webapp 2017-11-07-08-50 • wire wire-webapp 2017-11-10-10-41 • wire wire-webapp 2017-12-04-10-23 • wire wire-webapp 2017-12-04-13-34 • wire wire-webapp 2017-12-07-11-13 • wire wire-webapp 2017-12-20-12-48 • wire wire-webapp 2018-01-24-18-11 • wire wire-webapp 2018-02-01-10-26 … and 275 more

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
  • CWE-80 Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page weakness

References