CVE-2025-55179 (GCVE-0-2025-55179)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-11-18 13:56
Modified
2025-11-18 14:25
Severity ?
5.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N/E:F/RL:O/RC:C
CWE
  • Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863)
Summary
Incomplete validation of rich response messages in WhatsApp for iOS prior to v2.25.23.73, WhatsApp Business for iOS v2.25.23.82, and WhatsApp for Mac v2.25.23.83 could have allowed a user to trigger processing of media content from an arbitrary URL on another user’s device. We have not seen evidence of exploitation in the wild.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Facebook WhatsApp Business for iOS Version: 2.25.8.14   ≤
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