CVE-2017-5592

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CVE-2017-5592

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CVE-2017-5592 at MITRE

Description

An incorrect implementation of "XEP-0280: Message Carbons" in multiple XMPP clients allows a remote attacker to impersonate any user, including contacts, in the vulnerable application's display. This allows for various kinds of social engineering attacks. This CVE is for profanity (0.4.7 - 0.5.0).

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	4.3
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	None

CVSS v3 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	5.9
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack Vector	Network
Attack Complexity	High
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	High
Availability Impact	None
CVSSv3 Version	3.1

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1024696 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

openSUSE-SU-2017:0531-1

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Thu Feb 22 12:16:16 2018
CVE page last modified: Thu Dec 7 13:13:39 2023