CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-5592
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 profanity (0.4.7 - 0.5.0).
Affected configurations
• profanity project profanity 0.4.7
• profanity project profanity 0.5.0
Related
References
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/09/29 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96173 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/boothj5/profanity/commit/8e75437a7e43d4c55e861691f74892e666e29b0b 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/96173 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/boothj5/profanity/commit/8e75437a7e43d4c55e861691f74892e666e29b0b 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