CVE-2019-10044 | BDVDB-2026-114166 Detail

Description#

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.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

https://github.com/blazeinfosec/advisories/blob/master/telegram-advisory.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107610

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12019-03-25Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-04Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.