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    CVE-2016-9928

    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.

    Published:Feb 6, 2020
    Last Modified:Nov 21, 2024
    EPS:Feb 6, 2020
    EPSS Score:0.01904
    CVSS Score:7.4

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Canonical
    Product
    Ubuntu Linux
    Vendor
    Debian
    Product
    Debian Linux
    Vendor
    Mcabber
    Product
    Mcabber

    Exploits

    https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845258https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1403790https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845258https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1403790

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

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    References

    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-01/msg00130.html
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/11/2
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/09/29
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94862
    https://bitbucket.org/McKael/mcabber-crew/commits/6e1ead98930d7dd0a520ad17c720ae4908429033/raw
    https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845258
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1403790
    https://gultsch.de/gajim_roster_push_and_message_interception.html
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00031.html
    https://usn.ubuntu.com/4506-1/
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-01/msg00130.html
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/11/2
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/09/29
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94862
    https://bitbucket.org/McKael/mcabber-crew/commits/6e1ead98930d7dd0a520ad17c720ae4908429033/raw
    https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845258
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1403790
    https://gultsch.de/gajim_roster_push_and_message_interception.html
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00031.html
    https://usn.ubuntu.com/4506-1/

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High