CVE-2016-10376

low-risk

Published 2017-05-28

Gajim through 0.16.7 unconditionally implements the "XEP-0146: Remote Controlling Clients" extension. This can be abused by malicious XMPP servers to, for example, extract plaintext from OTR encrypted sessions.

Do I need to act?

0.52% chance of exploitation

EPSS score — low exploit probability

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 4.5/10 Medium

NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (1)

Gajim

Affected Vendors

Gajim

References (12)

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3943

Third Party Advisory https://bugs.debian.org/863445

Patch https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/commit/cb65cfc5aed9efe05208ebbb7fb2d41fcf7253c...

Patch https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/issues/8378

Mailing List https://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/standards/2016-August/031335.html

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-14

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3943

Third Party Advisory https://bugs.debian.org/863445

Patch https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/commit/cb65cfc5aed9efe05208ebbb7fb2d41fcf7253c...

Patch https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/issues/8378

Mailing List https://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/standards/2016-August/031335.html

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-14

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low-risk

Severity 19/34 · Moderate

Exploitability 2/34 · Minimal

Exposure 5/34 · Minimal