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Telegram Desktop (aka tdesktop) 1.3.16 alpha, when "Use proxy" is enabled, sends credentials and application data in cleartext over the SOCKS5 protocol.

Telegram Desktop before 1.5.12 on Windows, and the Telegram applications for Android, iOS, and Linux, is vulnerable to an IDN homograph attack when displaying messages containing URLs. This occurs because the application produces a clickable link even if (for example) Latin and…

The saveFile method in MediaController.java in the Telegram Messenger application before 2017-12-08 for Android allows directory traversal via a pathname obtained in a file-transfer request from a remote peer, as demonstrated by writing to tgnet.dat or tgnet.dat.bak.

EvilVideo vulnerability allows sending malicious apps disguised as videos in Telegram for Android application affecting versions 10.14.4 and older.

The "secret chat" feature in Telegram 4.9.1 for Android has a "side channel" in which Telegram servers send GET requests for URLs typed while composing a chat message, before that chat message is sent. There are also GET requests to other URLs on the same web server. This also…

Telegram Desktop through 2.1.13 allows a spoofed file type to bypass the Dangerous File Type Execution protection mechanism, as demonstrated by use of the chat window with a filename that lacks an extension.

Telegram Desktop 2.9.2 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the application by sending an oversized message payload. Attackers can generate a 9 million byte buffer and paste it into the messaging interface to trigger an application crash.

Telegram Desktop (aka tdesktop) 1.3.14 might allow attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application exit) via an "Edit color palette" search that triggers an "index out of range" condition. NOTE: this issue is disputed by multiple third parties because…

An issue was discovered in Telegram Messenger 2.6 for iOS and 1.8.2 for Android. Secret chat messages are available in cleartext in process memory and a .db file.

Telegram Android <7.1.0 (2090), Telegram iOS <7.1, and Telegram macOS <7.1 are affected by a Stack Based Overflow in the gray_split_cubic function of their custom fork of the rlottie library. A remote attacker might be able to overwrite Telegram's stack memory out-of-bounds on a…

Telegram Android <7.1.0 (2090), Telegram iOS <7.1, and Telegram macOS <7.1 are affected by a Heap Buffer Overflow in the VGradientCache::generateGradientColorTable function of their custom fork of the rlottie library. A remote attacker might be able to overwrite heap memory…

An issue was discovered in the org.telegram.messenger application 4.8.11 for Android. The FingerprintManager class for Biometric validation allows authentication bypass through the callback method from onAuthenticationFailed to onAuthenticationSucceeded with null, because the…

Telegram Desktop through 2.0.1, Telegram through 6.0.1 for Android, and Telegram through 6.0.1 for iOS allow an IDN Homograph attack via Punycode in a public URL or a group chat invitation URL.

An issue was discovered in the org.telegram.messenger application 4.8.11 for Android. The Passcode feature allows authentication bypass via runtime manipulation that forces a certain method's return value to true. In other words, an attacker could authenticate with an arbitrary…

Telegram Desktop (aka tdesktop) 1.3.14, and Telegram 3.3.0.0 WP8.1 on Windows, leaks end-user public and private IP addresses during a call because of an unsafe default behavior in which P2P connections are accepted from clients outside of the My Contacts list.

Telegram Web 15.3.1 allows XSS via a certain payload derived from a Target Corporation website. NOTE: some third parties have been unable to discern any relationship between the Pastebin information and a possible XSS finding.

The Telegram application through 5.12 for Android, when Show Popup is enabled, might allow physically proximate attackers to bypass intended restrictions on message reading and message replying. This might be interpreted as a bypass of the passcode feature.

The Telegram app 7.6.2 for iOS allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (application crash) if the victim pastes an attacker-supplied message (e.g., in the Persian language) into a channel or group. The crash occurs in MtProtoKitFramework. NOTE: the…

Telegram 9.3.1 and 9.4.0 allows attackers to access restricted files, microphone ,or video recording via the DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES flag.

Telegram Android <7.1.0 (2090), Telegram iOS <7.1, and Telegram macOS <7.1 are affected by a Heap Buffer Overflow in the LottieParserImpl::parseDashProperty function of their custom fork of the rlottie library. A remote attacker might be able to access heap memory out-of-bounds…

Telegram Android <7.1.0 (2090), Telegram iOS <7.1, and Telegram macOS <7.1 are affected by a Heap Buffer Overflow in the LOTGradient::populate function of their custom fork of the rlottie library. A remote attacker might be able to access heap memory out-of-bounds on a victim…

Telegram Android <7.1.0 (2090), Telegram iOS <7.1, and Telegram macOS <7.1 are affected by an Integer Overflow in the LOTGradient::populate function of their custom fork of the rlottie library. A remote attacker might be able to access heap memory out-of-bounds on a victim…

Telegram Android <7.1.0 (2090), Telegram iOS <7.1, and Telegram macOS <7.1 are affected by a Type Confusion in the LOTCompLayerItem::LOTCompLayerItem function of their custom fork of the rlottie library. A remote attacker might be able to access heap memory out-of-bounds on a…

Telegram Android <7.1.0 (2090), Telegram iOS <7.1, and Telegram macOS <7.1 are affected by a Type Confusion in the VDasher constructor of their custom fork of the rlottie library. A remote attacker might be able to access Telegram's heap memory out-of-bounds on a victim device…

Telegram Android <7.1.0 (2090), Telegram iOS <7.1, and Telegram macOS <7.1 are affected by a Stack Based Overflow in the blit function of their custom fork of the rlottie library. A remote attacker might be able to access Telegram's stack memory out-of-bounds on a victim device…

Telegram before 7.4 (212543) Stable on macOS stores the local copy of self-destructed messages in a sandbox path, leading to sensitive information disclosure.

Telegram before 7.4 (212543) Stable on macOS stores the local passcode in cleartext, leading to information disclosure.

The "delete for" feature in Telegram before 5.11 on Android does not delete shared media files from the Telegram Images directory. In other words, there is a potentially misleading UI indication that a sender can remove a recipient's copy of a previously sent image (analogous to…

An exploitable information disclosure vulnerability exists in the "Secret Chats" functionality of the Telegram Android messaging application version 4.9.0. The "Secret Chats" functionality allows a user to delete all traces of a chat, either by using a time trigger or by direct…

A reordering issue exists in Telegram before 7.8.1 for Android, Telegram before 7.8.3 for iOS, and Telegram Desktop before 2.8.8. An attacker can cause the server to receive messages in a different order than they were sent a client.

The Terminate Session feature in the Telegram application through 7.2.1 for Android, and through 2.4.7 for Windows and UNIX, fails to invalidate a recently active session.

The Privacy > Phone Number feature in the Telegram app 5.10 for Android and iOS provides an incorrect indication that the access level is Nobody, because attackers can find these numbers via the Group Info feature, e.g., by adding a significant fraction of a region's assigned…

Telegram v9.6.3 on iOS allows attackers to hide critical information on the User Interface via calling the function SFSafariViewController.

In Telegram WebK before 2.0.0 (488), a crafted Mini Web App allows XSS via the postMessage web_app_open_link event type.

Telegram Desktop 0.10.19 uses 0755 permissions for $HOME/.TelegramDesktop, which allows local users to obtain sensitive authentication information via standard filesystem operations.

A security vulnerability has been detected in Telegram Desktop up to 6.7.5. This vulnerability affects the function RequestButton of the file Telegram/SourceFiles/boxes/url_auth_box.cpp of the component Bot API. The manipulation of the argument login_url leads to null pointer…

The Telegram application 7.5.0 through 7.8.0 for Android does not properly implement image self-destruction, a different vulnerability than CVE-2019-16248. After approximately two to four uses of the self-destruct feature, there is a misleading UI indication that an image was…

Telegram Desktop through 2.4.3 does not require passcode entry upon pushing the Export key within the Export Telegram Data wizard. The threat model is a victim who has voluntarily opened Export Wizard but is then distracted. An attacker then approaches the unattended desktop and…

Telegram Web K Alpha before 0.7.2 mishandles the characters in a document extension.

Telegram Web K Alpha 0.6.1 allows XSS via a document name.