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CVE-2016-9928 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...

HighCVSS 7.4 EPSS 4.5%
Published
Updated
Exploit status
No public exploit known

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.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
debian/mcabber(Debian:12) < 0.10.2-1.1 0.10.2-1.1
debian/mcabber(Debian:13) < 0.10.2-1.1 0.10.2-1.1
mcabber >= 1.0.0, < 1.0.4 1.0.4
Canonical Ubuntu Linux = 16.04 No fix listed
debian linux = 8.0 No fix listed
mcabber = before 1.0.4 No fix listed

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