# CVE-2025-55996: CVE-2025-55996

Status: published. Published: 2025-09-12. Updated: 2026-11-07.

Viber Desktop 25.6.0 is vulnerable to HTML Injection via the text parameter of the message compose/forward interface

## Remediation

No remediation reported in collected sources

## Affected products and versions

- rakuten / viber: ≤ 25.6.0 (affected, custom). Source: NVD

## NVD configuration conditions

Affected CPE matches depend on the following AND/OR and negation conditions:

```json
[
  {
    "negate": false,
    "nodes": [
      {
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:rakuten:viber:*:*:*:*:*:windows:*:*",
            "versionEndIncluding": "25.6.0",
            "vulnerable": true
          }
        ],
        "negate": false,
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ],
    "operator": "OR"
  }
]
```

## Severity and prioritization

- CVSS 3.1: 6.3 (medium); CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L; source: NVD: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

- CISA KEV: No listing in collected sources

- EPSS: Not available

- SSVC: exploitation poc; automatable no; technical impact partial; source NVD SSVC: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

- Weaknesses: CWE-79

## Exploit evidence

No exploit evidence in collected sources. This is not proof of no exploitation.

## References

- https://github.com/thawkhant/viber-desktop-html-injection (cve@mitre.org; Third Party Advisory)

## Provenance

- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-55996; retrieved 2026-11-07; source updated 2026-11-07

Revision: aeaf2ad9a3736924b6c983782599f4fd063fa5e3925c25504bcdb7be12450b80

Canonical: https://y2.dev/cve/CVE-2025-55996

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