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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-41093

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.

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1 Nov 2026, 08:56 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2021-41093

core-osv · Original source

Published 4 Oct 2021, 19:15 UTC

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.

osv:CVE-2021-41093
Complete source record
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