Insufficiently Protected Credentials The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package telegram-desktop  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-TELEGRAMDESKTOP-5697087
  • published28 Sept 2018
  • disclosed28 Sept 2018

Introduced: 28 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-17613  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-522  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:13.

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.

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