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Stable release with baileys >= 7.0.0-rc.12 (CVE-2026-48063) — is 2.4.0 planned?

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
release, security

Research direction

Review package.json on develop and the dependency update merged in #2575, then compare it with the stable v2.3.7 release. Check the CVE-2026-48063 advisory and current release process to determine whether a stable 2.4.0 or a patched 2.3.x path is documented; done means a maintainer-confirmed release plan or mitigation guidance.

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Description

Context

CVE-2026-48063 / GHSA-qvv5-jq5g-4cgg (CVSS 9.3) affects baileys >= 7.0.0-rc.1, < 7.0.0-rc.12, allowing a remote party to inject a forged messages.upsert with attacker-chosen key and payload.

The latest stable release, v2.3.7 (2025-12-05), ships "baileys": "7.0.0-rc.9" — inside the affected range — and main still declares rc.9 today.

The dependency was already bumped to 7.0.0-rc13 on develop in #2575 (merged 2026-06-15), where package.json now reads version 2.4.0.

Question

Is a stable 2.4.0 release planned, and is there an ETA?

For production deployments that cannot run homolog/develop builds, is there a recommended path to the patched baileys — for example a 2.3.x patch release that only bumps the dependency?

Why it matters

We run v2.3.7 in production. As an interim mitigation we drop inbound payloads carrying requestId / protocolMessage at our webhook boundary (the workaround from the advisory), but that only covers events Evolution forwards — it cannot cover anything handled internally.

Thanks for the project and for any guidance.

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