CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-1889

Published: Sep 03, 2020 | Modified: Sep 14, 2021

CVSS 3.x

CRITICAL

Source:

NVD

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

CVSS 2.x

7.5 HIGH

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1889
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/.html

A security feature bypass issue in WhatsApp Desktop versions prior to v0.3.4932 could have allowed for sandbox escape in Electron and escalation of privilege if combined with a remote code execution vulnerability inside the sandboxed renderer process.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Whatsapp_desktop	Whatsapp	*	0.3.4932 (excluding)

References

https://www.whatsapp.com/security/advisories/2020/

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