ZeroHour
DashboardNewsCVEsExploitsIncidentsAIBriefAnalyticsEntitiesWatchlistIOCsAsk the feedSourcesFeeds & APIKiosk mode
Schneier on Securitypublished ()ingested

Vulnerability in French Government Tchap Chat App

highVulnerabilityimportance 42
Read the original
Tagsvulnerability
Full article95 words · extracted from schneier.com · click to collapse

HomeBlog

A researcher found a vulnerability in the French government WhatsApp replacement app: Tchap. The vulnerability allows anyone to surreptitiously join any conversation.

Of course the developers will fix this vulnerability. But it is amusing to point out that this is exactly the backdoor that GCHQ is proposing.

EDITED TO ADD (5/13): Some clarifications.

Tags: backdoors, France, vulnerabilities

Posted on April 24, 2019 at 6:23 AM • 9 Comments

Comments

Atom Feed Subscribe to comments on this entry

Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.

Powered by WordPress Hosted by Pressable

Text extracted automatically; images, tables and formatting may be missing. Original: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/04/vulnerability_i_1.html