CVE-2019-3568 is a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in the WhatsApp VOIP stack, allowing remote code execution through specially crafted RTCP packets. It affects various WhatsApp and WhatsApp Business versions across Android, iOS, Windows Phone, and Tizen. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with no user interaction, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. This CVE is actively exploited in the wild, as evidenced by its inclusion in CISA's KEV catalog and numerous media reports linking it to NSO Group's Pegasus spyware. Despite the active exploitation, public exploit intelligence like Metasploit or ExploitDB entries are currently unavailable, though it garners significant community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2.18.15CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:whatsapp:whatsapp:*:*:*:*:*:tizen:*:* | ||
< 2.18.348CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:whatsapp:whatsapp:*:*:*:*:*:windows_phone:*:* | ||
< 2.19.51CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:whatsapp:whatsapp:*:*:*:*:*:iphone_os:*:* | ||
< 2.19.134CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:whatsapp:whatsapp:*:*:*:*:*:android:*:* | ||
< 2.19.44CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:whatsapp:whatsapp_business:*:*:*:*:*:android:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.