CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-38538
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-10-04
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362
Description
A race condition in an event subsystem led to a heap use-after-free issue in established audio/video calls that could have resulted in app termination or unexpected control flow with very low probability.
Affected configurations
• whatsapp whatsapp (< 2.2320.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
References
- https://www.whatsapp.com/security/advisories/2023/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.whatsapp.com/security/advisories/2023/ Vendor Advisory