PT-2023-26502 · Facebook+1 · Whatsapp Business For Android+6

Published 2023-10-04 · Updated 2023-10-23 · CVE-2023-38538

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions No specific software or versions are mentioned in the provided descriptions.

Description A race condition in an event subsystem led to a heap use-after-free issue in established audio/video calls that could have resulted in app termination or unexpected control flow with very low probability.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Race Condition

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-362

Related Identifiers

CVE-2023-38538

Affected Products

Whatsapp Business For Android

Whatsapp Business For Ios

Whatsapp Desktop For Mac

Whatsapp Desktop For Windows

Whatsapp For Android

Whatsapp For Ios

Whatsapp

References · 8

• https://whatsapp.com/security/advisories/2023 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-38538 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-38538 · Security Note
• https://twitter.com/fletch_ai/status/1716637431473270883 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/58998 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/camarmir/status/1711061797363466329 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/71636 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/msuiche/status/1711047502512697732 · Twitter Post