{"id":"CVE-2019-3566","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2019-3566","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T23:26:08.213Z","title":"A bug in WhatsApp for Android's messaging logic would potentially allow a malicious individual who has taken over over a WhatsApp user's account to recover previously sent messages.","description":"A bug in WhatsApp for Android's messaging logic would potentially allow a malicious individual who has taken over over a WhatsApp user's account to recover previously sent messages. This behavior requires independent knowledge of metadata for previous messages, which are not available publicly. This issue affects WhatsApp for Android 2.19.52 and 2.19.54 - 2.19.103, as well as WhatsApp Business for Android starting in v2.19.22 until v2.19.38.","published":"2019-05-10T21:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:35:14.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve-assign@fb.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.9,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-284"],"affected":["whatsapp/whatsapp","whatsapp/whatsapp business"],"epss":{"score":0.01067,"percentile":0.64562,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.07%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://www.facebook.com/security/advisories/cve-2019-3566","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve-assign@fb.com"},{"url":"https://www.facebook.com/security/advisories/cve-2019-3566","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-3566","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}