Local message disclosure via unfiltered expired records
Published Feb 4, 2022 · Updated Apr 23, 2025
Information exposure in Wire Swiss GmbH Wire Web App before 2022-01-27-production.0 allows local users to read expired messages via search. ConversationService.searchInConversation returned locally stored event records without excluding entries whose ephemeral_expires marker indicated expiration, while event-loading paths likewise retained them. Access requires control of the affected browser profile and its local Wire history; opening a result triggers deletion, and the exposure does not alter messages or affect server-side data.
Summary
What happened
Information exposure in Wire Swiss GmbH Wire Web App before 2022-01-27-production.0 allows local users to read expired messages via search. ConversationService.searchInConversation returned locally stored event records without excluding entries whose ephemeral_expires marker indicated expiration, while event-loading paths likewise retained them. Access requires control of the affected browser profile and its local Wire history; opening a result triggers deletion, and the exposure does not alter messages or affect server-side data.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-23605
- Published
- Feb 4, 2022
- Updated
- Apr 23, 2025
- Vendor
- Wire Swiss GmbH
- Product
- Wire Web App
- Classifications
- CWE-212, T1005
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- admin
Timeline
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- Feb 4, 2022CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 23, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=< 2022-01-27-production.0
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