What is CVE-2022-24799?

CVE-2022-24799 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Wireapp Wire-webapp, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 9.6/10. Published 2022-04-20.

How severe is CVE-2022-24799?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.6 out of 10.

XSS in Wireapp Wire-webapp

CVE-2022-24799

wire-webapp is the web application interface for the wire messaging service. Insufficient escaping in markdown “code highlighting” in the wire-webapp resulted in the possibility of injecting and executing arbitrary HTML code and thus also…

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.006 (69.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.6 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Wireapp Wire-webapp — versions < 2022-03-30-production.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

github.com/wireapp/wire-webapp/security/advisories/GHSA-5568-rfh8-vmhq (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
github.com/wireapp/wire-webapp/commit/d14455252a949dc83f36d45e2babbdd9328af2a4 (x_refsource_MISC)
github.com/wireapp/wire-webapp/releases/tag/2022-03-30-production.0 (x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-24799?: CVE-2022-24799 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Wireapp Wire-webapp, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 9.6/10. Published 2022-04-20.
How severe is CVE-2022-24799?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.6 out of 10.