HIGH
MCabber before 1.0.4 is vulnerable to roster push attacks, which allows remote attackers to intercept communications, or add themselves as an entity on a 3rd party's roster as another user, which will also garner associated privileges, via crafted XMPP packets
Published Feb 6, 2020
7.4
HIGHCVSS 3.1
EPSS 4.51%
Description
MCabber before 1.0.4 is vulnerable to roster push attacks, which allows remote attackers to intercept communications, or add themselves as an entity on a 3rd party's roster as another user, which will also garner associated privileges, via crafted XMPP packets.
Affected products
-
- Version before 1.0.4StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version
Configuration 2
- 16.04
Configuration 3
- 8.0
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
7.4 HIGH NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact None
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
5.8 MEDIUM NVD
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
4.51% 0.04512
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
EPSS probability 0.04512
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (23 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 4.51% (0.04512) | 91.22th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 4.51% (0.04512) | 90.27th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| May 29, 2026 | 2.71% (0.02715) | 86.17th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| May 26, 2026 | 4.31% (0.04311) | 89.01th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| May 24, 2026 | 2.71% (0.02715) | 86.11th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| May 22, 2026 | 4.31% (0.04311) | 89.00th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| May 13, 2026 | 2.71% (0.02715) | 86.06th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 28, 2025 | 4.51% (0.04514) | 88.77th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 27, 2025 | 1.90% (0.01904) | 82.83th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Oct 28, 2025 | 4.51% (0.04514) | 88.61th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Oct 27, 2025 | 1.90% (0.01904) | 82.66th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Oct 2, 2025 | 4.51% (0.04514) | 88.71th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 30, 2025 | 2.85% (0.02846) | 84.97th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 29, 2025 | 5.24% (0.05235) | 82.90th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 2.85% (0.02846) | 85.29th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 0.89% (0.00893) | 83.33th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Feb 13, 2024 | 1.00% (0.00995) | 83.12th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jul 8, 2023 | 0.90% (0.00896) | 80.48th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| May 8, 2023 | 0.92% (0.00919) | 80.55th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 0.59% (0.00586) | 74.85th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 2.17% (0.02172) | 80.77th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 2.17% (0.02172) | 78.91th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 2.17% (0.02172) | 57.73th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
Weaknesses (1)
References (10)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-01/msg00130.html x_refsource_CONFIRMMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/11/2 x_refsource_MISCMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/09/29 x_refsource_MISCMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94862 x_refsource_MISCThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- https://bitbucket.org/McKael/mcabber-crew/commits/6e1ead98930d7dd0a520ad17c720ae4908429033/raw x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchThird Party Advisory
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845258 x_refsource_CONFIRMExploitThird Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1403790 x_refsource_CONFIRMExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
- https://gultsch.de/gajim_roster_push_and_message_interception.html x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00031.html mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4506-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUThird Party Advisory
Change history (0)
No recorded changes yet.
Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner debian
Published Feb 6, 2020
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Reserved Dec 11, 2016
Link CVE-2016-9928
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a