PT-2020-15158 · Facebook · Whatsapp For Ios+1

Published 2020-10-06 · Updated 2022-02-05 · CVE-2020-1904

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WhatsApp for iOS versions prior to 2.20.61 WhatsApp Business for iOS versions prior to 2.20.61

Description A path validation issue could have allowed for directory traversal, overwriting files when sending specially crafted docx, xlsx, and pptx files as attachments to messages.

Recommendations For WhatsApp for iOS versions prior to 2.20.61, update to version 2.20.61 or later. For WhatsApp Business for iOS versions prior to 2.20.61, update to version 2.20.61 or later.

Fix

Relative Path Traversal

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-23

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

CVE-2020-1904

Affected Products

Whatsapp Business For Ios

Whatsapp For Ios

References · 4

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-1904 · Vendor Advisory
• https://whatsapp.com/security/advisories/2020 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1904 · Security Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/26162 · Telegram Post