CVE-2017-5591

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Feb 9, 2017
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: Jan 25, 2017

Description

An incorrect implementation of "XEP-0280: Message Carbons" in multiple XMPP clients allows a remote attacker to impersonate any user, including contacts, in the vulnerable application's display. This allows for various kinds of social engineering attacks. This CVE is for SleekXMPP up to 1.3.1 and Slixmpp all versions up to 1.2.3, as bundled in poezio (0.8 - 0.10) and other products.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

96166vdb-entry
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/09/29
https://rt-solutions.de/en/2017/02/CVE-2017-5589_xmpp_carbons/
https://rt-solutions.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/CVE-2017-5589_xmpp_carbons.pdf
https://github.com/poezio/slixmpp/commit/22664ee7b86c8e010f312b66d12590fb47160ad8

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