Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package telegram-desktop  (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU1804-TELEGRAMDESKTOP-623137
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed1 May 2017

Introduced: 1 May 2017

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

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.04.

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 Ubuntu.

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