CVE-2016-9928
mcabber - security update
7.4
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 2.7%
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.
How to fix CVE-2016-9928
To remediate CVE-2016-9928, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/mcabber—upgrade to 0.10.2-1.1 or later
- —upgrade to 0.10.2-1+deb8u1 or later
- —upgrade to 0.10.1-3+deb7u1 or later
Is CVE-2016-9928 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 2.7%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (3)
- from 0, < 0.10.2-1.1
- from 0, < 0.10.2-1+deb8u1
- from 0, < 0.10.1-3+deb7u1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |