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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2018-17780

Telegram Desktop (aka tdesktop) 1.3.14, and Telegram 3.3.0.0 WP8.1 on Windows, leaks end-user public and private IP addresses during a call because of an unsafe default behavior in which P2P connections are accepted from clients outside of the My Contacts list.

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CVE-2018-17780
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1 Nov 2026, 05:14 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2018-17780

core-osv · Original source

Published 29 Sept 2018, 19:29 UTC

Telegram Desktop (aka tdesktop) 1.3.14, and Telegram 3.3.0.0 WP8.1 on Windows, leaks end-user public and private IP addresses during a call because of an unsafe default behavior in which P2P connections are accepted from clients outside of the My Contacts list.

osv:CVE-2018-17780
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-17780",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "summary": "Telegram Desktop (aka tdesktop) 1.3.14, and Telegram 3.3.0.0 WP8.1 on Windows, leaks end-user public and private IP addresses during a call because of an unsafe default behavior in which P2P connections are accepted from clients outside of the My Contacts list.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2018-17780",
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"
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          "database_specific": {
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          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:26.087394020Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://www.inputzero.io/2018/09/bug-bounty-telegram-cve-2018-17780.html"
      ],
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    },
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 431532,
  "published_at": "2018-09-29T19:29:00.237+00:00"
}