CVE-2019-3566

MediumCVSS 5.9/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

A bug in WhatsApp for Android's messaging logic would potentially allow a malicious individual who has taken over over a WhatsApp user's account to recover previously sent messages. This behavior requires independent knowledge of metadata for previous messages, which are not available publicly. This issue affects WhatsApp for Android 2.19.52 and 2.19.54 - 2.19.103, as well as WhatsApp Business for Android starting in v2.19.22 until v2.19.38.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 5.9/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weakness enumeration

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
May 10, 2019
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

Related CVEs from 2019

CVE-2019-35678.1In some configurations an attacker can inject a new executable path into the extensions.load file for osquery and hard link a parent folder CVE-2019-35689.8A buffer overflow vulnerability in WhatsApp VOIP stack allowed remote code execution via specially crafted series of RTCP packets sent to a CVE-2019-35697.5HHVM, when used with FastCGI, would bind by default to all available interfaces. This behavior could allow a malicious individual unintendedCVE-2019-35709.8Call to the scrypt_enc() function in HHVM can lead to heap corruption by using specifically crafted parameters (N, r and p). This happens ifCVE-2019-35715.3An input validation issue affected WhatsApp Desktop versions prior to 0.3.3793 which allows malicious clients to send files to users that woCVE-2019-35726.5An issue was discovered in libming 0.4.8. There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the function writePNG in the file util/dbl2png.c of the CVE-2019-35735.5In libsixel v1.8.2, there is an infinite loop in the function sixel_decode_raw_impl() in the file fromsixel.c, as demonstrated by sixel2png.CVE-2019-35747.8In libsixel v1.8.2, there is a heap-based buffer over-read in the function load_jpeg() in the file loader.c, as demonstrated by img2sixel.CVE-2019-35757.8Sqla_yaml_fixtures 0.9.1 allows local users to execute arbitrary python code via the fixture_text argument in sqla_yaml_fixtures.load.CVE-2019-35769.8inxedu through 2018-12-24 has a SQL Injection vulnerability that can lead to information disclosure via the deleteFaveorite/ PATH_INFO. The CVE-2019-35779.8An issue was discovered in Waimai Super Cms 20150505. web/Lib/Action/ProductAction.class.php allows blind SQL Injection via the id[0] parameCVE-2019-35786.1MyBB 1.8.19 has XSS in the resetpassword function.
CVE-2019-3566: Medium severity, CVSS 5.9 | Vulnix