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 another user, which will also garner associated privileges, via crafted XMPP packets.

• CWE-269

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-01/msg00130.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/11/2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/09/29Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94862Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://bitbucket.org/McKael/mcabber-crew/commits/6e1ead98930d7dd0a520ad17c720ae4908429033/rawPatch, Third Party Advisory
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845258Exploit, Third Party Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1403790Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
• https://gultsch.de/gajim_roster_push_and_message_interception.htmlThird Party Advisory
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00031.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4506-1/Third Party Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-01/msg00130.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/11/2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/09/29Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94862Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://bitbucket.org/McKael/mcabber-crew/commits/6e1ead98930d7dd0a520ad17c720ae4908429033/rawPatch, Third Party Advisory
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845258Exploit, Third Party Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1403790Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
• https://gultsch.de/gajim_roster_push_and_message_interception.htmlThird Party Advisory
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00031.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4506-1/Third Party Advisory

Published

Feb 6, 2020

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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