7.4
CVSSv3

CVE-2016-9928

Published: 06/02/2020 Updated: 01/01/2022
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5.8 | Impact Score: 4.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.4 | Impact Score: 5.2 | Exploitability Score: 2.2
VMScore: 516
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

MCabber prior to 1.0.4 is vulnerable to roster push attacks, which allows remote malicious users 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.

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canonical ubuntu linux 16.04

debian debian linux 8.0

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Debian Bug report logs - #845258 mcabber: CVE-2016-9928: remote attacker can modify the roster and intercept messages via a crafted roster-push IQ stanza Package: src:mcabber; Maintainer for src:mcabber is Debian XMPP Maintainers <pkg-xmpp-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg ...