CVE-2016-9928 Information

Description

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Reference

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/

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

7.4