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CVE-2018-17231

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-09-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-617

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

Affected products

• Telegram Desktop: 1.3.14

References

• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/09/19/8
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/09/19/8

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