CVE-2019-3571 (GCVE-0-2019-3571)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-07-16 20:16 – Updated: 2024-08-04 19:12
VLAI
Summary
An input validation issue affected WhatsApp Desktop versions prior to 0.3.3793 which allows malicious clients to send files to users that would be displayed with a wrong extension.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-116 - Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output (CWE-116), Improper Handling of Unicode Encoding (CWE-176)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Facebook WhatsApp Desktop Affected: 0.3.3793
Affected: unspecified , < 0.3.3793 (custom)
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Date Public
2019-07-16 00:00
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