CVE-2016-9928
HIGH7.4EPSS 2.7%mcabber - security update
Published: 2/6/2020Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9928
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.
Affected packages (3)
- Debian/mcabberfrom 0, < 0.10.2-1.1
- Debian/mcabberfrom 0, < 0.10.2-1+deb8u1
- Debian/mcabberfrom 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 |