ASA-2020-00045 – WhatsApp Desktop: A security feature bypass issue could have allowed for sandbox escape

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Allele Security Alert

ASA-2020-00045

Identifier(s)

ASA-2020-00045, CVE-2020-1889

Title

A security feature bypass issue could have allowed for sandbox escape

Vendor(s)

Facebook

Product(s)

WhatsApp Desktop

Affected version(s)

WhatsApp Desktop versions before v0.3.4932

Fixed version(s)

WhatsApp Desktop version v0.3.4932

Proof of concept

Unknown

Description

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.

Technical details

Unknown

Credits

Unknown

Reference(s)

WhatsApp Security Advisories
https://www.whatsapp.com/security/advisories/2020

CVE-2020-1889
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-1889

CVE-2020-1889
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1889

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Last modified: September 9, 2020

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