cve/2018/CVE-2018-15542.md

### [CVE-2018-15542](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-15542)
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### Description

** DISPUTED ** An issue was discovered in the org.telegram.messenger application 4.8.11 for Android. The Passcode feature allows authentication bypass via runtime manipulation that forces a certain method's return value to true. In other words, an attacker could authenticate with an arbitrary passcode.  NOTE: the vendor indicates that this is not an attack of interest within the context of their threat model, which excludes Android devices on which rooting has occurred.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://gist.github.com/tanprathan/18d0f692a2485acfb5693e2f6dabeb5d

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.