Name: CVE-2016-9928: Improper Privilege Management
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2020-02-06T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2016-9928, CWE-269, CVSS 7.4, EPSS 0.04512

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 Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 7.4
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Debian	—	Upgrade mcabber	Mar 31, 2017	Nov 27, 2016
Suse	—	Upgrade python3-sleekxmpp	Jan 24, 2017	Jan 23, 2017
Ubuntu	—	Upgrade mcabber	Sep 17, 2020	Jan 23, 2017

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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