CVE-2016-9928

high

Description

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.

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4506-1/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00031.html

https://gultsch.de/gajim_roster_push_and_message_interception.html

https://bitbucket.org/McKael/mcabber-crew/commits/6e1ead98930d7dd0a520ad17c720ae4908429033/raw

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94862

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/09/29

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/11/2

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-01/msg00130.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-02-06

Updated: 2022-01-01

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Severity: High