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
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 4.51% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 91.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.4 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2020-02-06 13:16Z6 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 03:07Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2016-12-11
- Assigning CNA
- debian
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-269Improper Privilege ManagementClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 71e7decc1b0a67e10cf4c9d3f8d6fe9d70c6c5f41468acd80ba3f5dd3c47921a
05 Affected products
06 References
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1403790
- bugs.debian.orghttps://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845258
- bitbucket.orghttps://bitbucket.org/McKael/mcabber-crew/commits/6e1ead98930d7dd0a520ad17c720ae4908429033/raw
- gultsch.dehttps://gultsch.de/gajim_roster_push_and_message_interception.html
- www.openwall.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/09/29
- www.openwall.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/11/2
- www.securityfocus.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94862
- lists.opensuse.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-01/msg00130.html
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20200628 [SECURITY] [DLA 2260-1] mcabber security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00031.html
- usn.ubuntu.comUSN-4506-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/4506-1/
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- mcabber Fixed in 0.10.2-1.1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- mcabber Fixed in 0.10.2-1.1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- mcabber Fixed in 0.10.2-1+deb8u1build0.16.04.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.