CVE-2022-23605 MEDIUM

CVE-2022-23605: Expired Ephemeral Messages not reliably removed in wire-webapp

Vendor Wireapp
Product wire-webapp
Weakness CWE-212
Published February 4, 2022
Last update April 23, 2025

CVSS base score

4.4/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required High
User interaction None
Confidentiality High
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Wire webapp is a web client for the wire messaging protocol. In versions prior to 2022-01-27-production.0 expired ephemeral messages were not reliably removed from local chat history of Wire Webapp. In versions before 2022-01-27-production.0 ephemeral messages and assets might still be accessible through the local search functionality. Any attempt to view one of these message in the chat view will then trigger the deletion. This issue only affects locally stored messages. On premise instances of wire-webapp need to be updated to 2022-01-27-production.0, so that their users are no longer affected. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

February 4, 2022 CVE published
April 23, 2025 Record updated