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CVE-2022-23605: Expired Ephemeral Messages not reliably removed in wire-webapp

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-02-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-212

Description

Wire webapp is a web client for the wire messaging protocol. In versions prior to 2022-01-27-production.0 expired ephemeral messages were not reliably removed from local chat history of Wire Webapp. In versions before 2022-01-27-production.0 ephemeral messages and assets might still be accessible through the local search functionality. Any attempt to view one of these message in the chat view will then trigger the deletion. This issue only affects locally stored messages. On premise instances of wire-webapp need to be updated to 2022-01-27-production.0, so that their users are no longer affected. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

Affected products

• wireapp wire-webapp: 2016-07-29-17-00, 2016-08-04-15-44, 2016-08-23-09-31, 2016-08-24-10-10, 2016-08-29-14-54, 2016-09-08-15-38 (+342)

References

• https://github.com/wireapp/wire-webapp/commit/42c9a1edddbdd5d4d8f9a196a98f6fc19bb21741
• https://github.com/wireapp/wire-webapp/security/advisories/GHSA-2w3m-ppfg-hg62
• https://github.com/wireapp/wire-webapp/commit/42c9a1edddbdd5d4d8f9a196a98f6fc19bb21741
• https://github.com/wireapp/wire-webapp/security/advisories/GHSA-2w3m-ppfg-hg62

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