Vulnerability Report

CVE-2019-10044

Title: Telegram Telegram Desktop

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2019-10044.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date Mar 25, 2019
Modified Date Jun 17, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 8.8 CVSS v3.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
3.28%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2019-10044: 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.

Impacted Vendors

T
telegram_desktop 1
T
telegram 2

Reference Links

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107610 https://github.com/blazeinfosec/advisories/blob/master/telegram-advisory.txt http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107610 https://github.com/blazeinfosec/advisories/blob/master/telegram-advisory.txt
CVSS v3.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
8.8
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
REQUIRED
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
6.8
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2019-10044 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction REQUIRED
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.