Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-30496

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 20 April 2021

Published
20 April 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 5.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0064 71.2th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-30496 is a medium-severity Stack-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-121) vulnerability in Telegram Telegram. Its CVSS base score is 5.7 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 28.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The Telegram app 7.6.2 for iOS allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (application crash) if the victim pastes an attacker-supplied message (e.g., in the Persian language) into a channel or group. The crash occurs in MtProtoKitFramework.…

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NOTE: the vendor's perspective is that "this behavior can't be considered a vulnerability."

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

telegram
telegram
7.6.2

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References