CISA KEV entry
CVE-2025-55177Meta Platforms WhatsApp Incorrect Authorization Vulnerability
Meta Platforms WhatsApp. Added to the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue on 2 September 2025.
Data status: a source is stale
Last synced CISA catalogue version 2026.11.04 (released 4 November 2026) 1,768 entries Updated manually
- Date added
- 2025-09-02
- Federal due date
- 2025-09-23 21 days after it was added; passed at the sync of 2026-11-05
- Known ransomware use
- Unknown
- Forensic triage (BOD 26-04)
- No
- CVSS
- 5.4 Medium CVSS 3.1, scored by cve-assign@fb.com
- EPSS
- 13.51% percentile 96.4, scored 2026-11-04
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation active, automatable no, technical impact total
- NVD status
- Analyzed published 2025-08-29, 4 days before the KEV listing
BOD 26-04 remediation window
With CISA's SSVC answers for this CVE (automatable: no, technical impact: total), BOD 26-04 Table 1 gives 3 days and forensic triage on a publicly exposed asset (row 3) and 14 days on an asset that is not publicly exposed (row 11) S06. The catalogue due date, 21 days after the date added, was set before BOD 26-04 took effect on 10 June 2026 S06. The directive binds US federal civilian executive branch agencies only.
What CISA says
Short description
Meta Platforms WhatsApp contains an incorrect authorization vulnerability due to an incomplete authorization of linked device synchronization messages. This vulnerability could allow an unrelated user to trigger processing of content from an arbitrary URL on a target’s device.
Required action
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Notes
https://www.whatsapp.com/security/advisories/2025/ ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-55177
CWE in the catalogue
CWE-863
Official links
- CISA KEV catalogue entry cisa.gov
- NVD record nvd.nist.gov
Vendor advisory and patch links
References NVD tags Vendor Advisory or Patch, exactly as NVD lists them.
- https://www.facebook.com/security/advisories/cve-2025-55177 Vendor Advisory
- https://www.whatsapp.com/security/advisories/2025/ Vendor Advisory
Links in CISA's notes
NVD details
- CWE (NVD)
- CWE-863 by nvd@nist.gov
- CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N- CVSS versions in NVD
- V31
- Last modified in NVD
- 2026-10-18T21:10:00.120
Where each value comes from
| Field | Source | Fetched, UTC | State |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catalogue fields | CISA KEV JSON, version 2026.11.04 | 2026-11-05 11:38 | current |
| NVD published, status, CVSS, CWE, vendor links | NVD CVE API 2.0; CVSS: NVD (cve-assign@fb.com) | 2026-11-03 12:37 | current at 2026-11-05 11:38 |
| EPSS | FIRST EPSS API, scores of 2026-11-04 | 2026-11-05 11:38 | current |
| CISA SSVC | CISA ADP (via NVD), record of 2025-08-30 | 2026-11-03 12:37 | current |
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