# CVE-2021-41093: Account takeover when having only access to a user's short lived token

- Severity: CVSS 7.4 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 3.86
- Published: 2021-10-04 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- wireapp wire-ios: fixed in 3.86

## Description

Wire is an open source secure messenger. In affected versions if the an attacker gets an old but valid access token they can take over an account by changing the email. This issue has been resolved in version 3.86 which uses a new endpoint which additionally requires an authentication cookie. See wire-ios-sync-engine and wire-ios-transport references. This is the root advisory that pulls the changes together.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on wireapp wire-ios, upgrade to a fixed version (3.86) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/wireapp/wire-ios/security/advisories/GHSA-6f4c-phfj-m255
- https://github.com/wireapp/wire-ios-sync-engine/security/advisories/GHSA-w727-5f74-49xj
- https://github.com/wireapp/wire-ios-transport/security/advisories/GHSA-p354-6r3m-g4xr
- https://github.com/wireapp/wire-server/security/advisories/GHSA-9rm2-w6pq-333m
- https://github.com/wireapp/wire-ios/commit/b0e7bb3b13dd8212032cb46e32edf701694687c7

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