CVE-2016-9928 (GCVE-0-2016-9928)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-02-06 13:16 – Updated: 2024-08-06 03:07
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
MCabber before 1.0.4 is vulnerable to roster push attacks, which allows remote attackers to intercept communications, or add themselves as an entity on a 3rd party's roster as another user, which will also garner associated privileges, via crafted XMPP packets.
Severity
7.4 (High)
CWE
- Other
Assigner
References
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| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1403790 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
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| https://bitbucket.org/McKael/mcabber-crew/commits… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://gultsch.de/gajim_roster_push_and_message_… | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/0… | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/11/2 | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94862 | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-0… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020… | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| https://usn.ubuntu.com/4506-1/ | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
Impacted products
Date Public
2016-12-11 00:00
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