CVE-2023-38538

Published Oct 4, 2023

Last updated a year ago

CVSS medium 5.0

Overview

Description: A race condition in an event subsystem led to a heap use-after-free issue in established audio/video calls that could have resulted in app termination or unexpected control flow with very low probability.
Source: cve-assign@fb.com
NVD status: Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type: Primary
Base score: 5
Impact score: 3.4
Exploitability score: 1.6
Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Severity: MEDIUM

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-362

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

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      {
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        "cpeMatch": [
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            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:whatsapp:whatsapp:*:*:*:*:desktop:windows:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "59B97470-3259-479B-A43F-13FAD03299F6",
            "versionEndExcluding": "2.2320.2"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

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