Detections
Analytics
CVE-2019-17191
high
Description
The Signal Private Messenger application before 4.47.7 for Android allows a caller to force a call to be answered, without callee user interaction, via a connect message. The existence of the call is noticeable to the callee; however, the audio channel may be open before the callee can block eavesdropping.
References
https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1180261210341511168
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21161432
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1943