Vulnerability CVE-2020-26547


Published: 2021-02-01

Description:
Monal before 4.9 does not implement proper sender verification on MAM and Message Carbon (XEP-0280) results. This allows a remote attacker (able to send stanzas to a victim) to inject arbitrary messages into the local history, with full control over the sender and receiver displayed to the victim.

Type:

CWE-345

(Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity)

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Monal -> Monal 

 References:
https://github.com/anurodhp/Monal/commits/develop
https://monal.im/blog/cve-2020-26547/

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