PYSEC-2017-104

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    PYSEC-2017-104

    Published: 9 Feb 2017Last Modified: 8 Nov 2023

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://rt-solutions.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/CVE-2017-5589_xmpp_carbons.pdf, https://rt-solutions.de/en/2017/02/CVE-2017-5589_xmpp_carbons/, https://github.com/poezio/slixmpp/commit/22664ee7b86c8e010f312b66d12590fb47160ad8, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/09/29, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96166, https://pypi.org/project/slixmpp, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5591

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: slixmpp

    Purl: pkg:pypi/slixmpp

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -22664ee7b86c8e010f312b66d12590fb47160ad8

    Affected versions

    1.0
    1.0.post1
    1.0.post2
    1.0.post3
    1.0.post4
    1.0.post5

    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