New Delhi: India’s nodal cybersecurity company CERT-In has alerted WhatsApp customers by informing about sure vulnerabilities within the extensively used messaging app that may doubtlessly result in a breach of delicate data.
The CERT-In or the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team issued a “high” severity ranking advisory over the vulnerability that has been detected within the platform. Softwares which have “WhatsApp and WhatsApp Business for Android prior to v2.21.4.18 and WhatsApp and WhatsApp Business for iOS prior to v2.21.32” are reported to point out these points.
“Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in WhatsApp applications which could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code or access sensitive information on a targeted system,” the advisory acknowledged.
It additional revealed that these vulnerabilities “exist in WhatsApp applications due to a cache configuration issue and missing bounds check within the audio decoding pipeline”.
“Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code or access sensitive information on a targeted system,” it cautioned.
The advisory has additionally suggested that customers of the appliance ought to replace the most recent model of WhatsApp from Google Play Store or iOS App Store to have the ability to counter the vulnerability menace.
For the uninitiated, CERT-In is the nationwide know-how arm to deal with considerations of cyberattacks. It is an workplace inside the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, guarding Indian our on-line world.
