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CVE-2014-8688

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-03-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

An issue was discovered in Telegram Messenger 2.6 for iOS and 1.8.2 for Android. Secret chat messages are available in cleartext in process memory and a .db file.

Affected products

• Telegram Messenger: 2.6, 1.8.2

References

• https://blog.zimperium.com/telegram-hack/
• https://blog.zimperium.com/telegram-hack/

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