CVE-2015-8688
medium
CVSS v3
5.4
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.4
Description
Gajim before 0.16.5 allows remote attackers to modify the roster and intercept messages via a crafted roster-push IQ stanza.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
64%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 0.16.5-0.1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 0.16.5-0.1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 0.16.5-0.1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 0.16.5-0.1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 0.16.5-0.1 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| gajim | gajim | {"endIncluding":"0.16.4"} | |
References
- http://gultsch.de/gajim_roster_push_and_message_interception.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175503.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175526.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00027.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3492
- https://hg.gajim.org/gajim/file/gajim-0.16.5/ChangeLog
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8688
CWEs
CWE-20
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.