Vulnerability CVE-2016-10376
Published: 2017-05-27   Modified: 2017-05-28

Description:
Gajim through 0.16.7 unconditionally implements the "XEP-0146: Remote Controlling Clients" extension. This can be abused by malicious XMPP servers to, for example, extract plaintext from OTR encrypted sessions.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
3.5/10
2.9/10
6.8/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Gajim -> Gajim 

 References:
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3943
https://bugs.debian.org/863445
https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/commit/cb65cfc5aed9efe05208ebbb7fb2d41fcf7253cc
https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/issues/8378
https://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/standards/2016-August/031335.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-14
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