CVE-2016-9928

HIGH

mcabber < 1.0.4 - Improper Privilege Management via Crafted XMPP Packets

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (10)

Core 10
Core References
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1403790
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845258
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/09/29
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/11/2
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry x_refsource_misc
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94862
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-01/msg00130.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00031.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4506-1/

Scores

CVSS v3 7.4
EPSS 0.0272
EPSS Percentile 86.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-269
Status published
Products (3)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 16.04
debian/debian_linux 8.0
mcabber/mcabber 1.0.0 - 1.0.4
Published Feb 06, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026