CVE-2016-9928

High

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.

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.4
Exploit probability—
ProductMcabber
PublishedFeb 6, 2020
First seenFeb 6, 2020

How to fix

Update
  • mcabber mcabber1.0.4 or later
Vendor advisories

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
mcabber mcabber1.0.0 ≤ v < 1.0.41.0.4
canonical ubuntu_linux16.04—
debian debian_linux8.0—

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