---
title: "Typo Trouble: Exploring the Telegram Python RCE Vulnerability"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/typo-trouble-exploring-the-telegram-python-rce-vulnerability-1gncelnr4
source_url: https://infosecwriteups.com/typo-trouble-exploring-the-telegram-python-rce-vulnerability-b7bc8a12c9ba
type: article
source: "InfoSec Write-ups"
published: 2024-04-23T07:03:43.226Z
updated: 2024-05-09T09:13:33.132Z
tags: ["security", "python", "vulnerability", "telegram"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 1
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Typo Trouble: Exploring the Telegram Python RCE Vulnerability

**[InfoSec Write-ups](https://daily.dev/sources/infosecwriteups)** · 2 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Telegram's Windows application had a critical vulnerability that allowed the execution of Python scripts with a typo in certain file extensions. Attackers could disguise these scripts as video files and run them on user interaction. Telegram deployed a server-side fix and tagged the files with the ".untrusted" extension.

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Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#python](https://daily.dev/tags/python), [#vulnerability](https://daily.dev/tags/vulnerability), [#telegram](https://daily.dev/tags/telegram)

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