CVE-2018-17231

HIGH

Telegram Desktop 1.3.14 - Denial of Service via Edit Color Palette Search

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Telegram Desktop (aka tdesktop) 1.3.14 might allow attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application exit) via an "Edit color palette" search that triggers an "index out of range" condition. NOTE: this issue is disputed by multiple third parties because the described attack scenario does not cross a privilege boundary

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/09/19/8

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0151
EPSS Percentile 71.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-617
Status published
Products (1)
telegram/telegram_desktop 1.3.14
Published Sep 19, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026