CVE-2016-9928

Publication date 6 February 2020

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.4 · High

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
mcabber 20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
19.10 eoan
Not affected
19.04 disco
Not affected
18.10 cosmic
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
17.10 artful Ignored end of life
17.04 zesty Ignored end of life
16.10 yakkety Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 0.10.2-1+deb8u1build0.16.04.1
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
12.04 LTS precise Ignored end of life

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.4 · High

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-4506-1
    • MCabber vulnerability
    • 16 September 2020

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