{"id":1467,"date":"2020-02-06T10:39:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T02:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/?p=1467"},"modified":"2020-02-06T10:39:54","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T02:39:54","slug":"critical-security-flaw-found-in-whatsapp-desktop-platform-allowing-cybercriminals-read-from-the-file-system-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/critical-security-flaw-found-in-whatsapp-desktop-platform-allowing-cybercriminals-read-from-the-file-system-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical Security Flaw Found in WhatsApp Desktop Platform Allowing Cybercriminals Read From The File System Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This vulnerability affects WhatsApp desktop &#8211; which I didn&#8217;t know exists &#8211; for Mac and Windows. It does so by exploiting unpatched bugs in the older version of Electron that WhatsApp desktop uses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.perimeterx.com\/tech-blog\/2020\/whatsapp-fs-read-vuln-disclosure\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/9_c40goo-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Critical Security Flaw Found in WhatsApp Desktop Platform Allowing Cybercriminals Read From The File System Access<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.perimeterx.com\/tech-blog\/2020\/whatsapp-fs-read-vuln-disclosure\/\">Critical Security Flaw Found in WhatsApp Desktop Platform Allowing Cybercriminals Read From The File System Access<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This vulnerability affects WhatsApp desktop &#8211; which I didn&#8217;t know exists &#8211; for Mac and Windows. It does so by exploiting unpatched bugs in the older version of Electron that WhatsApp desktop uses. Critical Security Flaw Found in WhatsApp Desktop Platform Allowing Cybercriminals Read From The File System Access Source: Critical Security Flaw Found in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1470,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions\/1470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}