#Whatsapp is one of the most famous messaging application that has more than 600 million users using it and the application was bought by Facebook recently. There is also an information that Whatsapp has reduced the messaging service provided by the service provider i.e. Carrier.
Recently a new vulnerability has been identified on Whatsapp that causes the user to delete all the chat in his/ her conversation.
Consider user X is not going good with user Y thus X wants to make Y exit from some group or wants to delete the entire chat that Y has. X can send a specially crafted message to Y that does the same.
The specially crafted message comprises of 2000 words
( 2 Kilobyte ) in a special character that causes the crash of the receiver's Whatsapp.
This vulnerability is found to work on all existing versions of #Android and the vulnerability has not been tested on #IOS and this vulnerability has no effect on Windows 8.1.
Since it is already noted that around 600 million users are using Whatsapp around 500 million are vulnerable to this vulnerability.
The Proof Of Concept ( POC ) is available for this attack online. Whatsapp is expected to release an update to fix this vulnerability. The vulnerability can cause
1. Deletion of entire chat conversation.
2. Exiting from the group due to the deletion of chat conversation.
3. Crashes the Whatsapp application if the chat is not deleted.
P.S : The post is to create awareness and not to be misused.
