CVE-2021-41861
lowpriority · track · 13EPSS 0.003 · 26 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
The Telegram application 7.5.0 through 7.8.0 for Android does not properly implement image self-destruction, a different vulnerability than CVE-2019-16248. After approximately two to four uses of the self-destruct feature, there is a misleading UI indication that an image was deleted (on both the sender and recipient sides). The images are still present in the /Storage/Emulated/0/Telegram/Telegram Image/ directory.
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references (13)
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- https://desktop.telegram.org/changelog#v-2-6-23-02-21cnnvd
- https://habr.com/ru/post/580582/cnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-41861cnnvd
- https://pikabu.ru/story/konfidentsialnost_polzovateley_telegram_snova_narushena_predstaviteli_messendzhera_trebuyut_ne_raskryivat_podrobnostey_8511495cnnvd
- https://telegram.org/blog/autodelete-inv2/ru#avtomaticheskoe-udalenie-soobscheniicnnvd
- https://desktop.telegram.org/changelog#v-2-6-23-02-21enisa_euvd
- https://habr.com/ru/post/580582/enisa_euvd
- https://pikabu.ru/story/konfidentsialnost_polzovateley_telegram_snova_narushena_predstaviteli_messendzhera_trebuyut_ne_raskryivat_podrobnostey_8511495enisa_euvd
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