CVE-2019-10044 describes an IDN homograph attack vulnerability in Telegram Desktop (before 1.5.12 on Windows) and Telegram applications for Android, iOS, and Linux. This allows attackers to craft malicious URLs that appear legitimate due to the mixing of visually similar characters from different alphabets, leading to a high-severity phishing risk. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH), the vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) but can lead to high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts (C:H/I:H/A:H) if exploited. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:telegram:telegram:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 1.5.12CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:telegram:telegram_desktop:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.