FKIE_CVE-2025-48928

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-05-28 17:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 09:30
Severity
4.0 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Summary
The TeleMessage service through 2025-05-05 is based on a JSP application in which the heap content is roughly equivalent to a "core dump" in which a password previously sent over HTTP would be included in this dump, as exploited in the wild in May 2025.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.wired.com/story/how-the-signal-knock-off-app-telemessage-got-hacked-in-20-minutes/Press/Media Coverage
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-48928US Government Resource
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
smarsh telemessage -
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