CVE-2019-10044

Published Mar 25, 2019 CVSS 3.0 · 8.8 High EPSS 3.3% KEV · Not listed
Description
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.

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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-2108 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.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 4, 2024, 10:10 PM
Reserved
Mar 25, 2019, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Mar 25, 2019, 8:29 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 2:10 AM