CVE-2022-29168

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    CVE-2022-29168

    Published: 25 Jun 2022Last Modified: 12 Aug 2026

    Summary: Cross Site Scripting in Wire Messages

    Details: Wire is a secure messaging application. Wire is vulnerable to arbitrary HTML and Javascript execution via insufficient escaping when rendering `@mentions` in the wire-webapp. If a user receives and views a malicious message, arbitrary code is injected and executed in the context of the victim allowing the attacker to fully control the user account. Wire-desktop clients that are connected to a vulnerable wire-webapp version are also vulnerable to this attack. The issue has been fixed in wire-webapp 2022-05-04-production.0 and is already deployed on all Wire managed services. On-premise instances of wire-webapp need to be updated to docker tag 2022-05-04-production.0-v0.29.7-0-a6f2ded or wire-server 2022-05-04 (chart/4.11.0) or later. No known workarounds exist.

    References: https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/29xxx/CVE-2022-29168.json, https://github.com/wireapp/wire-webapp/security/advisories/GHSA-jgv3-4j56-fvh6, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-29168

    Affected packages

    Package

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 70dd4b109488463f6284f013d8e73a08755da94a
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    2016-07-29-17-00

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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