CVE-2017-8769

lowpriority · track · 18OT risk · elevatedEPSS 0.002 · 11 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.21% (11th) EPSS

CVSS 2.1 · low

Is it mine?

2 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Facebook WhatsApp Messenger before 2.16.323 for Android uses the SD card for cleartext storage of files (Audio, Documents, Images, Video, and Voice Notes) associated with a chat, even after that chat is deleted. There may be users who expect file deletion to occur upon chat deletion, or who expect encryption (consistent with the application's use of an encrypted database to store chat text). NOTE: the vendor reportedly indicates that they do not "consider these to be security issues" because a user may legitimately want to preserve any file for use "in other apps like the Google Photos gallery" regardless of whether its associated chat is deleted

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

4.6

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–medium · 2.1–4.6

v2.02.1lowAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 2.9

v3.14.6mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 0.9 · impact 3.6

v3.14.2mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-311USprimary

affected products (2)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
whatsapp whatsapp< 2.16.323nvdUScpe:2.3:a:whatsapp:whatsapp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2017-05-18modified 2026-06-17

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