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CVE-2016-9928

Published: 6 February 2020

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.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.4

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
mcabber
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
artful Ignored
(end of life)
bionic Not vulnerable
(1.0.4-1)
cosmic Not vulnerable
(1.0.4-1)
disco Not vulnerable
(1.0.4-1)
eoan Not vulnerable
(1.0.4-1)
focal Not vulnerable
(1.0.4-1)
precise Ignored
(end of life)
trusty Does not exist
(trusty was needed)
upstream Needs triage

xenial
Released (0.10.2-1+deb8u1build0.16.04.1)
yakkety Ignored
(end of life)
zesty Ignored
(end of life)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.4
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N