CVE-2021-41861: Telegram

Low severity, CVSS 3.3. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Telegram application 7.5.0 through 7.8.0 for Android does not properly implement image self-destruction, a different vulnerability than CVE-2019-16248. After approximately two to four uses of the self-destruct feature, there is a misleading UI indication that an image was deleted (on both the sender and recipient sides). The images are still present in the /Storage/Emulated/0/Telegram/Telegram Image/ directory.

Affected products

• Telegram Telegram: from 7.5.0, up to and including 7.8.0

Published 2021-10-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.