High severity · published Feb 6, 2020
CVE-2016-9928
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…
7.4
CVSS
4.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)4.5% · higher than 91% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0 · source: NVD
MC
Mcabber · Mcabber
1.0.0 before 1.0.4 · source: NVD
UL
Ubuntu Linux · Canonical
16.04 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9928
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9928
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-01/msg00130.html
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/11/2
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/09/29
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94862
Patch
https://bitbucket.org/McKael/mcabber-crew/commits/6e1ead98930d7dd0a520ad17c720ae4908429033/raw
Exploit
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845258
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