Improper Input Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package telegram-desktop  (opens in a new tab)


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EPSS
3.28% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-TELEGRAMDESKTOP-644900
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed25 Mar 2019

Introduced: 25 Mar 2019

CVE-2019-10044  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.04.

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 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 Cyrillic characters exist in the same domain name, and the available font has an identical representation of characters from different alphabets.