{"id":127136,"date":"2021-09-02T17:23:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T00:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/whatsapp-photo-filter-bug-could-have-exposed-your-data-to-remote-attackers"},"modified":"2021-09-02T17:23:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T00:23:13","slug":"whatsapp-photo-filter-bug-could-have-exposed-your-data-to-remote-attackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/whatsapp-photo-filter-bug-could-have-exposed-your-data-to-remote-attackers","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp Photo Filter Bug Could Have Exposed Your Data to Remote Attackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/whatsapp-photo-filter-bug-could-have-exposed-your-data-to-remote-attackers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A now-patched high-severity security vulnerability in WhatApp\u2019s image filter feature could have been abused to send a malicious image over the messaging app to read sensitive information from the app\u2019s memory.<\/p>\n<p>Tracked as <a href=\"https:\/\/nvd.nist.gov\/vuln\/detail\/CVE-2020-1910\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CVE-2020\u20131910<\/a> (CVSS score: 7.8), the flaw concerns an out-of-bounds read\/write and stems from applying specific image filters to a rogue image and sending the altered image to an unwitting recipient, thereby enabling an attacker to access valuable data stored the app\u2019s memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A now-patched high-severity security vulnerability in WhatApp\u2019s image filter feature could have been abused to send a malicious image over the messaging app to read sensitive information from the app\u2019s memory. Tracked as CVE-2020\u20131910 (CVSS score: 7.8), the flaw concerns an out-of-bounds read\/write and stems from applying specific image filters to a rogue image and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}