CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-9928
7.4 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-02-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.4 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-269
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.
Affected configurations
• mcabber mcabber (>= 1.0.0 < 1.0.4)
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• debian debian linux 8.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-01/msg00130.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/11/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/09/29 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94862 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bitbucket.org/McKael/mcabber-crew/commits/6e1ead98930d7dd0a520ad17c720ae4908429033/raw Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845258 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1403790 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://gultsch.de/gajim_roster_push_and_message_interception.html Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00031.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4506-1/ Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-01/msg00130.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/11/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/09/29 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94862 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bitbucket.org/McKael/mcabber-crew/commits/6e1ead98930d7dd0a520ad17c720ae4908429033/raw Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845258 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1403790 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://gultsch.de/gajim_roster_push_and_message_interception.html Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00031.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4506-1/ Third Party Advisory