CVE-2016-10376

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.

Published: 2017-05-27 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2016-10376 is rated Moderate Risk (40.6/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.15%). Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2016-10376

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.52% 1.15% +0.63%
2 2025-08-16 0.45% 0.52% +0.08%
3 2025-03-30 — 0.45% —

Full EPSS history (8 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2016-10376

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.5 3.0 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:H)
They need powerful rights—admin, root, or similar—before this pays off.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:H)
Serious risk that confidential data gets exposed in a big way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
 0.9 3.6 [email protected]
3.5 2.0 LOW
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:S)
A single authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 6.8 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2016-10376

OS Trackers for CVE-2016-10376

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2016-10376 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (gajim), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-10376
gentoo normal CVE-2016-10376: 1 GLSA(s) (201707-14), 1 atom(s) (net-im/gajim); latest impact normal. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2016-10376
ubuntu medium CVE-2016-10376 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (gajim), 22 status rows across 22 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 16, ignored 3, DNE 1, needed 1, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10376

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2016-10376

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
gajim gajim <= 0.16.7 cpe:2.3:a:gajim:gajim:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2016-10376

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