# CVE-2022-23605: Expired Ephemeral Messages not reliably removed in wire-webapp

- Severity: CVSS 4.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2022-01-27-production.0
- Published: 2022-02-04 · Updated: 2025-04-23

## Affected

- wireapp wire-webapp: fixed in 2022-01-27-production.0

## Description

Wire webapp is a web client for the wire messaging protocol. In versions prior to 2022-01-27-production.0 expired ephemeral messages were not reliably removed from local chat history of Wire Webapp. In versions before 2022-01-27-production.0 ephemeral messages and assets might still be accessible through the local search functionality. Any attempt to view one of these message in the chat view will then trigger the deletion. This issue only affects locally stored messages. On premise instances of wire-webapp need to be updated to 2022-01-27-production.0, so that their users are no longer affected. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on wireapp wire-webapp, upgrade to a fixed version (2022-01-27-production.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/wireapp/wire-webapp/security/advisories/GHSA-2w3m-ppfg-hg62
- https://github.com/wireapp/wire-webapp/commit/42c9a1edddbdd5d4d8f9a196a98f6fc19bb21741

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