CVE-2016-10376

MEDIUM

Gajim < 0.16.7 - Cryptographic Issue

Title source: rule

Description

Gajim through 0.16.7 unconditionally implements the "XEP-0146: Remote Controlling Clients" extension. This can be abused by malicious XMPP servers to, for example, extract plaintext from OTR encrypted sessions.

References (6)

[Third Party Advisory] https://bugs.debian.org/863445

[Patch, Vendor Advisory] https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/commit/cb65cfc5aed9efe05208ebbb7fb2d41fcf7253cc

[Patch, Vendor Advisory] https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/issues/8378

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/standards/2016-August/031335.html

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3943

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-14

Scores

CVSS v3 4.5

EPSS 0.0052

EPSS Percentile 66.6%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE

CWE-310

Status published

Products (2)

gajim/gajim < 0.16.7

n/a/n/a

Published May 28, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026