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CVE-2018-17613

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Date: September 28, 2018

Telegram Desktop (aka tdesktop) 1.3.16 alpha, when "Use proxy" is enabled, sends credentials and application data in cleartext over the SOCKS5 protocol.

Severity Score

9.8

Related Resources (4)

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-17613

Url: https://www.inputzero.io/2018/09/telegram-share-password-in-cleartext.html

Url: https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q3/280

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17613

Severity Score

9.8

Weakness Type (CWE)

Insufficiently Protected Credentials

CWE-522

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CVSS v3

Base Score:	9.8
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	5.0
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	NONE
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