Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows
CVE-2019-10044
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.
EPSS: 0.033 (87.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.
Affected products
- Microsoft Windows
- Telegram
- Telegram Telegram_desktop
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2019-10044?
- CVE-2019-10044 is a high-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2019-03-25.
- How severe is CVE-2019-10044?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.