Medium severity · published Oct 9, 2018
CVE-2018-15542
An issue was discovered in the org.telegram.messenger application 4.8.11 for Android
6.4
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in the org.telegram.messenger application 4.8.11 for Android. The Passcode feature allows authentication bypass via runtime manipulation that forces a certain method's return value to true. In other words, an attacker could authenticate with an arbitrary passcode. NOTE: the vendor indicates that this is not an attack of interest within the context of their threat model, which excludes Android devices on which rooting has occurred
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Physical
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 28% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
TE
Telegram · Telegram
4.8.11 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-15542
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-15542
Third Party Advisory
https://gist.github.com/tanprathan/18d0f692a2485acfb5693e2f6dabeb5d
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