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CVE-2016-9928 Details

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:7.4 HIGHVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-01/msg00130.html	CVE	Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
https://bitbucket.org/McKael/mcabber-crew/commits/6e1ead98930d7dd0a520ad17c720ae4908429033/raw	CVE	PatchThird Party Advisory
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845258	CVE	ExploitThird Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1403790	CVE	ExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
https://gultsch.de/gajim_roster_push_and_message_interception.html	CVE	Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00031.html	CVE	Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4506-1/	CVE	Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/11/2	CVE	Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/09/29	CVE	Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94862	CVE	Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-01/msg00130.html	[email protected]	Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
https://bitbucket.org/McKael/mcabber-crew/commits/6e1ead98930d7dd0a520ad17c720ae4908429033/raw	[email protected]	PatchThird Party Advisory
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845258	[email protected]	ExploitThird Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1403790	[email protected]	ExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
https://gultsch.de/gajim_roster_push_and_message_interception.html	[email protected]	Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00031.html	[email protected]	Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4506-1/	[email protected]	Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/11/2	[email protected]	Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/09/29	[email protected]	Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94862	[email protected]	Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-269	Improper Privilege Management	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
mcabber mcabber	>= 1.0.0, < 1.0.4
CPE cpe:2.3:a:mcabber:mcabber:::::::: Remediation No remediation found in references.
canonical ubuntu linux	16.04
CPE cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04::::esm::: Remediation No remediation found in references.
debian debian linux	8.0
CPE cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:::::::* Remediation No remediation found in references.

Change History

7 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 17, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Jan 1, 2022	Modified Analysis	[email protected]
Sep 17, 2020	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Jun 28, 2020	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Feb 10, 2020	Initial Analysis	[email protected]

CVE-2016-9928 Details

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