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Telegram Desktop before 7.2.9 IPC Record Injection File Exfiltration via interpret: Scheme

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severity
high
date
Affecting

  • Telegram Desktop >= 0, < 7.2.9

CWE
  • CWE-143 Improper Neutralization of Record Delimiters
CVSS
8.6
CVSS V4 Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Credit
Emiliano Versini
Description
Telegram Desktop before 7.2.9 contains an IPC record-separator injection vulnerability in Core::Sandbox that allows remote attackers to inject OPEN: records via crafted tg:// links containing unescaped semicolons. Attackers can reach the interpret: scheme handler to upload local files, including tdata session keys, to an attacker channel, enabling account takeover.

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