Vulnerabilities / CVE-2018-17613

critical

CVE-2018-17613

Telegram Desktop (aka tdesktop) 1.3.16 alpha, when "Use proxy" is enab ...

Published Modified CWE 522
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD.

Description

Telegram Desktop (aka tdesktop) 1.3.16 alpha, when "Use proxy" is enabled, sends credentials and application data in cleartext over the SOCKS5 protocol.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
debian 11telegram-desktopno fix listed
debian 12telegram-desktopno fix listed
debian 14telegram-desktopno fix listed
echotelegram-desktopno fix listed
rapidfort debian 12telegram-desktopno fix listed
rapidfort debian 13telegram-desktopno fix listed

References

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