Timeline for Found an application (Whatsapp) initiating UPnP requests, is it something that I should worry about?
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| Feb 1, 2021 at 15:08 | history | protected | CommunityBot | ||
| May 31, 2019 at 18:43 | answer | added | defalt | timeline score: 6 | |
| Mar 3, 2019 at 3:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSecurity/status/1102041034333274112 | ||
| Jan 12, 2019 at 13:06 | comment | added | brasofilo | Yes indeed, I made a WhatsApp call from one mobile to another and both appeared under UPnP listing. And they disappear after finishing the call. | |
| Jan 12, 2019 at 5:52 | comment | added | defalt | It's probably using uPnP for external IP Address discovery and dynamic port forwarding. The normal behaviour would be to use STUN protocol to set up VOIP. These are NAT traversal techniques. They might have add uPnP in their latter updates. Good finding. I'll look into this and update this as answer. | |
| Jan 12, 2019 at 5:25 | comment | added | Hadev | @brasofilo, I think if you make a call using Whatsapp you will get Whatsapp under your UpnP setting list. I think that's the reason of Whatsapp showing up there, but why and how, I 'm still not sure if it's a normal behavior or not | |
| Jan 12, 2019 at 5:19 | comment | added | Hadev | @defalt, actually it is reproduced when I call someone. | |
| Jan 12, 2019 at 1:40 | comment | added | brasofilo | I scanned many pages of Google results and the only mention I found to this issue is from 2017 on this SuperUser question (no answers): Are applications able to open ports in modem without permission? | |
| Jan 12, 2019 at 0:56 | comment | added | brasofilo | I was just fiddling with my router's UPnP setting up a Plex server and found WhatsApp there. I deactivated/reactivated UPnP and it went away, I regret not having done a screenshot. Will keep an eye on it and report back. | |
| Jan 11, 2019 at 13:09 | comment | added | defalt | Can you reproduce this log again by calling someone on your WhatsApp? It's not supposed to use uPnP. WhatsApp uses STUN for establishing VOIP. | |
| Jan 11, 2019 at 2:27 | answer | added | Connor Peoples | timeline score: 0 | |
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| Jan 10, 2019 at 9:01 | comment | added | paj28 | Lots of apps do this to allow peer-to-peer communication | |
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| Jan 10, 2019 at 8:04 | history | asked | Hadev | CC BY-SA 4.0 |