CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-5591
5.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-02-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/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 SleekXMPP up to 1.3.1 and Slixmpp all versions up to 1.2.3, as bundled in poezio (0.8 - 0.10) and other products.
Affected configurations
• sleekxmpp project sleekxmpp (<= 1.3.1)
• slixmpp project slixmpp (<= 1.2.3)
• poezio poezio 0.8
• poezio poezio 0.8.1
• poezio poezio 0.9
• poezio poezio 0.10
Related
References
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/09/29 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96166 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/poezio/slixmpp/commit/22664ee7b86c8e010f312b66d12590fb47160ad8 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/96166 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/poezio/slixmpp/commit/22664ee7b86c8e010f312b66d12590fb47160ad8 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