CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-5590
5.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-02-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20, CWE-346
Description
An incorrect implementation of "XEP-0280: Message Carbons" in multiple XMPP clients allows a remote attacker to impersonate any user, including contacts, in the vulnerable application's display. This allows for various kinds of social engineering attacks. This CVE is for ChatSecure (3.2.0 - 4.0.0; only iOS) and Zom (all versions up to 1.0.11; only iOS).
Affected configurations
• chatsecure chatsecure 3.2.0
• chatsecure chatsecure 3.2.1
• chatsecure chatsecure 3.2.2
• chatsecure chatsecure 3.2.3
• chatsecure chatsecure 4.0.0
• zom zom (<= 1.0.11)
Related
References
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/09/29 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96165 www.securityfocus.com
- https://github.com/ChatSecure/ChatSecure-iOS/commit/a340b4bb519227d89f85f2716a10a197a65d4856 Patch
- https://github.com/zom/Zom-iOS/commit/880051eaa8ba32d1b257c87a7d8798a93561bfd3 Patch
- https://rt-solutions.de/en/2017/02/CVE-2017-5589_xmpp_carbons/ Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://rt-solutions.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/CVE-2017-5589_xmpp_carbons.pdf Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/09/29 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96165 www.securityfocus.com
- https://github.com/ChatSecure/ChatSecure-iOS/commit/a340b4bb519227d89f85f2716a10a197a65d4856 Patch
- https://github.com/zom/Zom-iOS/commit/880051eaa8ba32d1b257c87a7d8798a93561bfd3 Patch
- https://rt-solutions.de/en/2017/02/CVE-2017-5589_xmpp_carbons/ Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://rt-solutions.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/CVE-2017-5589_xmpp_carbons.pdf Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory