wireapp wire-ios up to 4.15.x infinite loop

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A vulnerability categorized as problematic has been discovered in wireapp wire-ios up to 4.15.x. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. The manipulation results in infinite loop. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2026-35049. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in wireapp wire-ios up to 4.15.x. Affected is an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a infinite loop vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-835. The product contains an iteration or loop with an exit condition that cannot be reached, i.e., an infinite loop. This is going to have an impact on availability. CVE summarizes:

wire-ios is an iOS client for the Wire secure messaging application. Prior to version 4.16.0, upon receiving a crafted malicious Proteus external message with an encrypted payload that is shorter than 16 bytes, the Wire iOS client crashes. The crash is triggered automatically after message receival with no user interaction. Since the malicious message persists in the conversation, the app enters a crash loop on relaunch and cannot be reopened until the local state is wiped. This issue has been fixed with version 4.16.0 which introduces the missing length check and is available via the App Store. No known workarounds are available.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-35049 since 03/31/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1499 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 4.16.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2026-34008). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Vendor

• wireapp

Name

• wire-ios

Version

• 4.0
• 4.1
• 4.2
• 4.3
• 4.4
• 4.5
• 4.6
• 4.7
• 4.8
• 4.9
• 4.10
• 4.11
• 4.12
• 4.13
• 4.14
• 4.15

Website

• Product: https://github.com/wireapp/wire-ios/

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