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CVE-2017-5605
An incorrect implementation of "XEP-0280: Message Carbons" in multiple XMPP clients allows a remote attacker to impersonate any user,…
Medium5.9EPSS 0.94%
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- mitre
Description
An incorrect implementation of "XEP-0280: Message Carbons" in multiple XMPP clients allows a remote attacker to impersonate any user, including contacts, in the vulnerable application's display. This allows for various kinds of social engineering attacks. This CVE is for Movim 0.8 - 0.10.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium5.9 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.94% · top 39% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.9.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Packagistmovim/moxlGHSA-hq38-v658-g3wp (opens in a new tab)
References (5)
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/09/29 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 96177 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://github.com/movim/moxl/commit/838b0a42efc3b67cc17d63e25ae1d0ea849cd89b (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://rt-solutions.de/en/2017/02/CVE-2017-5589_xmpp_carbons/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://rt-solutions.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/CVE-2017-5589_xmpp_carbons.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-hq38-v658-g3wp (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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