fkie_cve-2017-5592
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2017-02-09 20:59
Modified
2025-04-20 01:37
Severity ?
Summary
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).
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| profanity_project | profanity | 0.4.7 | |
| profanity_project | profanity | 0.4.7 | |
| profanity_project | profanity | 0.4.7 | |
| profanity_project | profanity | 0.4.7 | |
| profanity_project | profanity | 0.4.7 | |
| profanity_project | profanity | 0.5.0 | |
| profanity_project | profanity | 0.5.0 |
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