CVE-2020-17448

high

Description

Telegram Desktop through 2.1.13 allows a spoofed file type to bypass the Dangerous File Type Execution protection mechanism, as demonstrated by use of the chat window with a filename that lacks an extension.

References

https://telegram.org

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-34

https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/releases/tag/v2.2.0

https://github.com/VijayT007/Vulnerability-Database/blob/master/Telegram-CVE-2020-17448

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-08-11

Updated: 2021-01-28

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

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

Severity: High