{"id":33178,"date":"2020-02-05T17:05:28","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T17:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/30909\/Flaws-In-WhatsApps-Desktop-App-Allowed-Remote-Access-To-Files.html"},"modified":"2020-02-05T17:05:28","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T17:05:28","slug":"flaws-in-whatsapps-desktop-app-allowed-remote-access-to-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/flaws-in-whatsapps-desktop-app-allowed-remote-access-to-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Flaws In WhatsApp&#8217;s Desktop App Allowed Remote Access To Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/GettyImages-1197943329-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook has patched a WhatsApp bug that would let someone read files off your desktop.\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/GettyImages-1197943329.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"683\" data-width=\"1024\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> Facebook has patched a WhatsApp bug that would let someone read files off your desktop.<\/div>\n<div class=\"caption-credit\">NurPhoto\/Getty Images<\/div>\n<aside id=\"social-left\" class=\"social-left\" aria-label=\"Read the comments or share this article\">\n<h4 class=\"comment-count-before\"><a title=\"52 posters participating\" class=\"comment-count icon-comment-bubble-down\" href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2020\/02\/flaws-in-whatsapps-desktop-app-allowed-remote-access-to-files\/?comments=1\">reader comments<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><a title=\"52 posters participating\" class=\"comment-count icon-comment-bubble-down\" href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2020\/02\/flaws-in-whatsapps-desktop-app-allowed-remote-access-to-files\/?comments=1\"><span class=\"comment-count-number\">74<\/span> <span class=\"visually-hidden\">with 52 posters participating<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"share-links\">\n<h4>Share this story<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Facebook has issued a security advisory for a flaw in WhatsApp Desktop that could allow an attacker to use cross-site scripting attacks and read the files on MacOS or Windows PCs by using a specially crafted text message. The attacker could retrieve the contents of files on the computer on the other end of a WhatsApp text message and potentially do other illicit things.<\/p>\n<p>The flaw, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.perimeterx.com\/tech-blog\/2020\/whatsapp-fs-read-vuln-disclosure\/\">discovered by researcher Gal Weizman at PerimeterX<\/a>, is a result of a weakness in how WhatsApp&#8217;s desktop was implemented using the Electron software framework, which has <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2019\/08\/skype-slack-other-electron-based-apps-can-be-easily-backdoored\/?comments=1&amp;start=40\">had significant security issues of its own in the past<\/a>. Electron allows developers to create cross-platform applications based on Web and browser technologies but is only as secure as the components developers deploy with their Electron apps.<\/p>\n<p>Weizman first found cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in WhatsApp in 2017, when he found he could tamper with the metadata of messages, craft bogus preview banners for Web links, and create URLs that could conceal hostile intent within WhatsApp messages. But as he continued his explorations into the WhatsApp client, he found that he could inject JavaScript code into messages that would run within WhatsApp Desktop\u2014and then gain access to the local file system <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en-US\/docs\/Web\/API\/Fetch_API\/Using_Fetch\">using the JavaScript Fetch API<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/9_c40goo.jpg\" class=\"enlarge\" data-height=\"875\" data-width=\"953\" alt=\"A fetch() call from a crafted WhatsApp message shows the contents of a file on the desktop that received it. \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/9_c40goo-640x588.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/9_c40goo.jpg 2x\" alt=\"A fetch() call from a crafted WhatsApp message shows the contents of a file on the desktop that received it. \"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/9_c40goo.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"875\" data-width=\"953\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> A fetch() call from a crafted WhatsApp message shows the contents of a file on the desktop that received it.<\/div>\n<div class=\"caption-credit\">Gal Weizman, PerimeterX<\/div>\n<p>All of this was possible because the vulnerable versions of WhatsApp Desktop had been developed using an outdated, <a href=\"https:\/\/chromereleases.googleblog.com\/2019\/03\/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html\">known vulnerable<\/a> version of Google&#8217;s Chrome browser engine\u2014Chrome 69. More recent versions of the Chromium engine would catch the malicious code.<\/p>\n<p>According to Facebook, the vulnerability affects WhatsApp Desktop versions 0.3.9309 and earlier, for users who have paired the desktop app with WhatsApp for iPhone versions prior to 2.20.10. Facebook has shipped new versions of WhatsApp Desktop that use updated browser components.<\/p>\n<p> READ MORE <a href=\"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/30909\/Flaws-In-WhatsApps-Desktop-App-Allowed-Remote-Access-To-Files.html\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>READ MORE HERE&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[1638],"class_list":["post-33178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-packet-storm","tag-headlineprivacydata-lossflawfacebook"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Flaws In WhatsApp&#039;s Desktop App Allowed Remote Access To Files 2026 | ThreatsHub Cybersecurity 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