CVE-2022-23835 describes a vulnerability in the Visual Voice Mail (VVM) application for Android, allowing persistent access and potential eavesdropping if an attacker temporarily gains READ_SMS permission to intercept IMAP credentialing messages. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 8.1 (AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), indicating a network-exploitable, high-impact threat to confidentiality, integrity, and availability, though some vendors dispute its concrete exploitability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or inclusion in CISA's KEV catalog, despite some media coverage and community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 2022-02-24CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:visual_voice_mail_project:visual_voice_mail:*:*:*:*:*:android:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/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, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.