Preliminary research

Telegram Desktop: one-click account takeover via IPC injection

beaksec · beaksec · 3 October 2026

AI-collected research leads through 3 November 2026, including a November–October–September missed-article review and a targeted multilingual search alongside earlier community-source sweeps. Unranked, incomplete, not community-vetted, and subject to change.

A browser protocol URL is converted into a delimiter-based interprocess command stream; injected commands invoke a legacy uploader on predictable local session files. Requires an external browser protocol-handler launch, predictable local session paths and a session without a local passcode.

Record

Researcher

beaksec

Published by

beaksec

Date

3 October 2026

In the archive

• Collected in the 2026 preliminary research sweep

Related sources

• Protocol-handler background

Tags

• uri-scheme
• ipc
• injection
• account-takeover
• owasp-a03-2021

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