Vulnerability Report

CVE-2018-17231

Title: Telegram Telegram Desktop Denial of Service (DoS)

Denial of Service (DoS)

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2018-17231.

CWE Category CWE-617

Published Date Sep 19, 2018

Modified Date Nov 21, 2024

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.51%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2018-17231: 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

Impacted Vendors

telegram_desktop 1

telegram 1

Reference Links

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/09/19/8 https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/09/19/8

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2018-17231 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

November 21, 2024 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

September 19, 2018 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK

Complexity LOW

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.