Vulnerability CVE-2016-9928
Published: 2020-02-06

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.

Type:

CWE-269

 (Improper Privilege Management)

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5.8/10
4.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
None
Affected software
Mcabber -> Mcabber 

 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
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