CVE-2016-10376
medium
CVSS v3
4.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.5
Description
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
55%
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 | 0.16.6-1.1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 0.16.6-1.1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 0.16.6-1.1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 0.16.6-1.1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 0.16.6-1.1 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| gajim | gajim | {"endIncluding":"0.16.7"} | |
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3943
- https://bugs.debian.org/863445
- https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/commit/cb65cfc5aed9efe05208ebbb7fb2d41fcf7253cc
- https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/issues/8378
- https://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/standards/2016-August/031335.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-14
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-10376
CWEs
CWE-310
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.