Information Exposure Affecting telegram-desktop package, versions <1.1.19-2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-TELEGRAMDESKTOP-1561052
  • published1 May 2017
  • disclosed1 May 2017

Introduced: 1 May 2017

CVE-2016-10351  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 telegram-desktop to version 1.1.19-2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream telegram-desktop package and not the telegram-desktop package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

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