cve-2020-1903
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-10-06 17:35
Modified
2024-08-04 06:53
Severity ?
Summary
An issue when unzipping docx, pptx, and xlsx documents in WhatsApp for iOS prior to v2.20.61 and WhatsApp Business for iOS prior to v2.20.61 could have resulted in an out-of-memory denial of service. This issue would have required the receiver to explicitly open the attachment if it was received from a number not in the receiver's WhatsApp contacts.
References
cve-assign@fb.comhttps://www.whatsapp.com/security/advisories/2020/Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.whatsapp.com/security/advisories/2020/Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Facebook WhatsApp for iOS Version: 2.20.61
Version: unspecified   < 2.20.61
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   Facebook WhatsApp Business for iOS Version: 2.20.61
Version: unspecified   < 2.20.61
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