CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-17231
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-09-19
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-617
Description
Telegram Desktop (aka tdesktop) 1.3.14 might allow attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application exit) via an "Edit color palette" search that triggers an "index out of range" condition. NOTE: this issue is disputed by multiple third parties because the described attack scenario does not cross a privilege boundary
Affected configurations
• telegram telegram desktop 1.3.14
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-617 Reachable Assertion weakness
References
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/09/19/8 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/09/19/8 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory