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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…
High7.4EPSS 4.5%
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- debian
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.5% · top 8.5% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.4.
Weakness
Affected products
MCabber · MCabber
- affected before 1.0.4
References (10)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1403790 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845258 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bitbucket.org/McKael/mcabber-crew/commits/6e1ead98930d7dd0a520ad17c720ae4908429033/raw (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://gultsch.de/gajim_roster_push_and_message_interception.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/09/29 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/11/2 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94862 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-01/msg00130.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20200628 [SECURITY] [DLA 2260-1] mcabber security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- USN-4506-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
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- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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