Information Exposure Affecting telegramdesktop/tdesktop package, versions [,1.1.24)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.37% (29th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TELEGRAMDESKTOPTDESKTOP-2364246
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed1 May 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 May 2017

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

How to fix?

Upgrade telegramdesktop/tdesktop to version 1.1.24 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. Telegram Desktop 0.10.19 uses 0755 permissions for $HOME/.TelegramDesktop, which allows local users to obtain sensitive authentication information via standard filesystem operations.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1