# baileys (npm) vulnerabilities

1 known vulnerability (1 critical), with the versions each affects and the releases that fix them.

## At a glance

- Latest release: 6.17.16 (Mar 4, 2025): no advisory affects it
- Newest unaffected release: 6.7.24 (Jul 29, 2026)
- Weekly downloads: 333.6K
- Dependents: 99
- Releases: 64 since 4.5.3 (Sep 15, 2022)
- Registry: https://www.npmjs.com/package/baileys
- Releases read: Nov 8, 2026

## Version timeline

Affected versions per advisory, in version order:

- CVE-2026-48063: 4.5.3 to 6.7.21 (6.7.22 is outside it); 7.0.0-rc.1 to 7.0.0-rc11 (7.0.0-rc12 is outside it)

## Advisories (1)

### [CVE-2026-48063](https://cve.now/CVE-2026-48063): Baileys has message upsert / hist sync spoofing and app state corruption when using maliciously crafted protocolMessage payload

- Severity: Critical 9.3
- Published: Aug 3, 2026
- Affected: fixed in 6.7.22; from 7.0.0-rc.1, fixed in 7.0.0-rc12.
- Fixed in 6.7.22 (released May 20, 2026, 75 days before disclosure) and 7.0.0-rc12 (released May 20, 2026, 75 days before disclosure).
- The latest release, 6.17.16, is not affected.
- 4.8% of baileys downloads last week were affected versions (20K).

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