ubuntu · CVE-2017-5591

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Priority: medium Published: 2017-02-09 20:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-26 12:00:37 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2017-5591 medium priority: Ubuntu including 2 source packages (sleekxmpp, slixmpp), 46 status rows across 23 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, precise, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 26, DNE 11, ignored 6, released 2, needed 1.

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 SleekXMPP up to 1.3.1 and Slixmpp all versions up to 1.2.3, as bundled in poezio (0.8 - 0.10) and other products.

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