CVE-2020-17448

Telegram Desktop through 2.1.13 allows a spoofed file type to bypass the Dangerous File Type Execution protection mechanism, as demonstrated by use of the chat window with a filename that lacks an extension.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop

Events

Introduced

Last affected

bede709f6b9c1b21827280cde3b6d94968997884

Fixed

e5434ea4915a93eb90b4c75ae79cb571001f7e3b

Database specific

Show details

{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:telegram:telegram_desktop:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "source": [
        "CPE_RANGE",
        "REFERENCES"
    ],
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.1.13"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

v0.*

v0.10.1

v0.10.14

v0.10.15

v0.10.16

v0.10.18

v0.10.19

v0.10.2

v0.10.20

v0.10.4

v0.10.5

v0.10.6

v0.5.0

v0.5.1

v0.5.11

v0.5.12

v0.5.13

v0.5.14

v0.5.15

v0.5.16

v0.5.17

v0.5.18

v0.5.19

v0.5.20

v0.5.21

v0.5.6

v0.5.7

v0.5.8

v0.5.9

v0.6.0

v0.6.1

v0.6.10

v0.6.11

v0.6.13

v0.6.14

v0.6.17

v0.6.18

v0.6.19

v0.6.2

v0.6.20

v0.6.21

v0.6.3

v0.6.4

v0.6.6

v0.6.7

v0.6.8

v0.6.9

v0.7.0

v0.7.1

v0.7.10

v0.7.11

v0.7.12

v0.7.13

v0.7.14

v0.7.15

v0.7.16

v0.7.17

v0.7.18

v0.7.2

v0.7.20

v0.7.21

v0.7.22

v0.7.23

v0.7.24

v0.7.25

v0.7.26

v0.7.3

v0.7.4

v0.7.5

v0.7.6

v0.7.7

v0.7.9

v0.8.0

v0.8.1

v0.8.10

v0.8.11

v0.8.12

v0.8.14

v0.8.15

v0.8.16

v0.8.17

v0.8.18

v0.8.19

v0.8.2

v0.8.21

v0.8.22

v0.8.23

v0.8.24

v0.8.25

v0.8.26

v0.8.27

v0.8.28

v0.8.29

v0.8.3

v0.8.30

v0.8.31

v0.8.32

v0.8.33

v0.8.34

v0.8.35

v0.8.38

v0.8.39

v0.8.40

v0.8.41

v0.8.42

v0.8.43

v0.8.44

v0.8.45

v0.8.48

v0.8.49

v0.8.5

v0.8.50

v0.8.51

v0.8.52

v0.8.53

v0.8.54

v0.8.55

v0.8.58

v0.8.59

v0.8.7

v0.8.8

v0.8.9

v0.9.0

v0.9.1

v0.9.11

v0.9.12

v0.9.13

v0.9.14

v0.9.19

v0.9.2

v0.9.20

v0.9.21

v0.9.22

v0.9.23

v0.9.24

v0.9.27

v0.9.28

v0.9.29

v0.9.3

v0.9.30

v0.9.31

v0.9.34

v0.9.35

v0.9.36

v0.9.43

v0.9.45

v0.9.46

v0.9.49

v0.9.50

v0.9.51

v0.9.56

v0.9.57

v0.9.6

v0.9.7

v0.9.8

v1.*

v1.0.0

v1.0.1

v1.0.10

v1.0.11

v1.0.12

v1.0.13

v1.0.14

v1.0.15

v1.0.16

v1.0.17

v1.0.18

v1.0.19

v1.0.2

v1.0.20

v1.0.21

v1.0.22

v1.0.23

v1.0.24

v1.0.25

v1.0.26

v1.0.27

v1.0.28

v1.0.29

v1.0.3

v1.0.30

v1.0.31

v1.0.32

v1.0.33

v1.0.34

v1.0.35

v1.0.36

v1.0.37

v1.0.38

v1.0.4

v1.0.5

v1.0.6

v1.0.7

v1.0.8

v1.0.9

v1.1.0

v1.1.1

v1.1.10

v1.1.11

v1.1.12

v1.1.13

v1.1.14

v1.1.15

v1.1.16

v1.1.17

v1.1.18

v1.1.19

v1.1.2

v1.1.20

v1.1.21

v1.1.22

v1.1.23

v1.1.24

v1.1.25

v1.1.26

v1.1.27

v1.1.28

v1.1.29

v1.1.3

v1.1.4

v1.1.5

v1.1.6

v1.1.7

v1.1.8

v1.1.9

v1.2.0

v1.2.1

v1.2.10

v1.2.11

v1.2.12

v1.2.13

v1.2.14

v1.2.15

v1.2.16

v1.2.17

v1.2.18

v1.2.19

v1.2.2

v1.2.20

v1.2.21

v1.2.22

v1.2.23

v1.2.24

v1.2.25

v1.2.3

v1.2.4

v1.2.5

v1.2.6

v1.2.7

v1.2.8

v1.2.9

v1.3.0

v1.3.1

v1.3.10

v1.3.11

v1.3.12

v1.3.13

v1.3.14

v1.3.15

v1.3.16

v1.3.17

v1.3.2

v1.3.3

v1.3.4

v1.3.5

v1.3.6

v1.3.7

v1.3.8

v1.3.9

v1.4.0

v1.4.1

v1.4.2

v1.4.3

v1.4.4

v1.4.5

v1.4.6

v1.4.7

v1.4.8

v1.5.0

v1.5.1

v1.5.10

v1.5.11

v1.5.12

v1.5.13

v1.5.15

v1.5.16

v1.5.17

v1.5.18

v1.5.2

v1.5.3

v1.5.4

v1.5.5

v1.5.6

v1.5.7

v1.5.8

v1.5.9

v1.6.0

v1.6.1

v1.6.2

v1.6.3

v1.6.4

v1.6.5

v1.6.6

v1.6.7

v1.7.0

v1.7.1

v1.7.10

v1.7.11

v1.7.12

v1.7.13

v1.7.14

v1.7.15

v1.7.2

v1.7.3

v1.7.4

v1.7.5

v1.7.6

v1.7.7

v1.7.8

v1.7.9

v1.8.0

v1.8.1

v1.8.10

v1.8.11

v1.8.12

v1.8.13

v1.8.14

v1.8.15

v1.8.2

v1.8.3

v1.8.4

v1.8.5

v1.8.7

v1.8.8

v1.8.9

v1.9.0

v1.9.1

v1.9.10

v1.9.11

v1.9.12

v1.9.13

v1.9.14

v1.9.15

v1.9.16

v1.9.17

v1.9.18

v1.9.19

v1.9.2

v1.9.20

v1.9.21

v1.9.22

v1.9.3

v1.9.4

v1.9.5

v1.9.6

v1.9.7

v1.9.8

v1.9.9

v2.*

v2.0.0

v2.0.1

v2.1.0

v2.1.1

v2.1.10

v2.1.11

v2.1.12

v2.1.13

v2.1.14

v2.1.15

v2.1.16

v2.1.17

v2.1.18

v2.1.19

v2.1.2

v2.1.20

v2.1.21

v2.1.22

v2.1.3

v2.1.4

v2.1.5

v2.1.6

v2.1.7

v2.1.8

v2.1.9

Database specific

vanir_signatures

[
    {
        "target": {
            "file": "Telegram/SourceFiles/core/version.h"
        },
        "deprecated": false,
        "id": "CVE-2020-17448-f7e81173",
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "digest": {
            "line_hashes": [
                "319953548780886678756405202304630774357",
                "228928258810351972415558832941811870001",
                "157717428114421186897809694267172552622",
                "217076276116021232503611570573011364623",
                "38342476542662820831055528795007988962",
                "109514707017027402583239583824590233658"
            ],
            "threshold": 0.9
        },
        "signature_type": "Line",
        "source": "https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/commit/e5434ea4915a93eb90b4c75ae79cb571001f7e3b"
    }
]

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-17448.json"

vanir_signatures_modified

"2026-07-08T20:30:36Z"