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Social post announcing a PoC for CVE-2026-107181 in Telegram Desktop before 7.2.9. A crafted tg:// link abuses Telegram's IPC handler to exfiltrate local files, including session keys, which lets an attacker hijack the account without the password. Rated CVSS 8.1 (v3.1) / 8.6 (v4.0), fixed in 7.2.9, with a linked writeup on beaksec.github.io.

TL;DR PoC for Telegram Desktop <7.2.9 (CVE-2026-107181): malicious tg:// link triggers IPC file exfiltration, enabling session theft and account takeover.

Organisations named here

  • tg:// URI handler

CVEs named here

  • CVE-2026-107181

Technologies named here

  • Telegram Desktop before 7.2.9
  • Telegram
  • CVSS

Techniques named here

  • CVSS
  • Session Hijacking