CVE-2019-10044

Summary

CVECVE-2019-10044
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-03-25 20:29:00 UTC
Updated2021-07-21 11:39:00 UTC
DescriptionTelegram 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Microsoft Windows - All All All
Operating System Microsoft Windows - All All All
Application Telegram Telegram All All All All
Application Telegram Telegram All All All All
Application Telegram Telegram Desktop All All All All
Application Telegram Telegram Desktop All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
advisories/telegram-advisory.txt at master · blazeinfosec/advisories · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Telegram CVE-2019-10044 Homograph Domain Spoofing Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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