{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 2 products.","exploited":"Yes. Attackers have exploited CVE-2025-55177 in the wild since at least 2 Sep 2025.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2025-55177 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available. US federal agencies must fix it by 23 Sep 2025.","what":"CVE-2025-55177 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Facebook WhatsApp Business for iOS, published on 29 Aug 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2025-55177 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-55177 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Facebook WhatsApp Business for iOS, published on 29 Aug 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: Yes. Attackers have exploited CVE-2025-55177 in the wild since at least 2 Sep 2025.\n\nAffected product: Facebook WhatsApp Business for iOS. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-55177/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-55177/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-55177","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-55177/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-55177","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-f7wf-m2qg-r9rx"],"analysis":{"component_type":"mobile_application","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["code_execution","security_bypass"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"WhatsApp iOS client","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Incomplete authorization in WhatsApp iOS allowed attackers to trigger URL processing, potentially enabling code execution when combined with an OS vulnerability.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"missing_authorization"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"facebook","cpe":[{"product":"whatsapp","vendor":"whatsapp"},{"product":"whatsapp_business","vendor":"whatsapp"}],"cvss":{"score":5.4,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N/E:F/RL:O/RC:C","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-863","name":"Incorrect Authorization"}],"description":"Incomplete authorization of linked device synchronization messages in WhatsApp for iOS prior to v2.25.21.73, WhatsApp Business for iOS v2.25.21.78, and WhatsApp for Mac v2.25.21.78 could have allowed an unrelated user to trigger processing of content from an arbitrary URL on a target’s device. We assess that this vulnerability, in combination with an OS-level vulnerability on Apple platforms (CVE-2025-43300), may have been exploited in a sophisticated attack against specific targeted users.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":"2026-04-24","github_poc":1,"max_poc_stars":6,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[{"date":"2026-04-24T23:10:59Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/danielw98/zero-click-exploit-analysis","stars":6,"title":"CVE-2025-55177 + CVE-2025-43300: reverse-engineering the WhatsApp-ImageIO zero-click iOS chain, with interactive labs."}],"tier":"exploited"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Meta Platforms WhatsApp Incorrect Authorization","id":"CVE-2025-55177","indexable":true,"kev":{"dateAdded":"2025-09-02","dueDate":"2025-09-23","knownRansomwareCampaignUse":"Unknown","product":"WhatsApp","requiredAction":"Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.","vendorProject":"Meta Platforms","vulnerabilityName":"Meta Platforms WhatsApp Incorrect Authorization Vulnerability"},"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"missing_authorization","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"Llama Stack could potentially allow for remote code execution","id":"CVE-2025-55178"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Reflected XSS in QuickCMS","id":"CVE-2025-55175"},"products":["WhatsApp Business for iOS","WhatsApp Desktop for Mac","WhatsApp for iOS"],"published":"2025-08-29","related":[{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"WhatsApp VOIP Stack Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2019-3568","kev_date_added":"2022-04-19","published":"2019-05-14"},{"cvss_score":8.2,"headline":"WhatsApp Cross-Site Scripting","id":"CVE-2019-18426","kev_date_added":"2022-05-23","published":"2020-01-21"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Integer overflow in WhatsApp Business for Android","id":"CVE-2022-36934","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2022-09-22"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Memory corruption in WhatsApp Business for Android","id":"CVE-2021-24042","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2022-01-04"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Memory corruption in WhatsApp Business for Android","id":"CVE-2021-24041","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-12-07"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Memory corruption in WhatsApp Business for Android","id":"CVE-2021-24026","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-04-06"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"open","licence":"CC0 1.0","name":"CISA KEV"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"},{"class":"open","licence":"CC0","name":"PoC-in-GitHub"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"active","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-07","vendors":["Facebook"]},"summary":"Incomplete authorization in WhatsApp iOS allowed attackers to trigger URL processing, potentially enabling code execution when combined with an OS vulnerability.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-55177/"}