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CVE record · CVE-2018-6344

Heap-based buffer overflow in Facebook WhatsApp for Android and others

CVSS 7.5 HighEPSS 0.019 · 80th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: facebook) at 31 Dec 2018, 22:00 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Facebook WhatsApp for Android
  • affected 2.18.293
  • affected unspecified to before 2.18.293 custom
Facebook WhatsApp for iOS
  • affected 2.18.93
  • affected unspecified to before 2.18.93 custom
Facebook WhatsApp for Windows Phone
  • affected 2.18.172
  • affected unspecified to before 2.18.172 custom
Identifiers
CVE-2018-6344
CNA
facebook
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-122
Tags
Published
31 Dec 2018
Updated
6 May 2025

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
7.5 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H ADP (CISA-ADP)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.019, the 80th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 31 Dec 2018. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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