ubuntu · CVE-2017-5604

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Priority: medium Published: 2017-02-09 20:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:34:53 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2017-5604 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (mcabber), 9 status rows across 9 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 5, ignored 2, DNE 1, released 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 mcabber 1.0.0 - 1.0.4.

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