| Name | CVE-2017-5591 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 854739, 854740 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| sleekxmpp (PTS) | jessie | 1.0~beta5-2 | fixed |
| stretch | 1.3.1-6 | fixed |
| buster | 1.3.3-4 | fixed |
| bullseye | 1.3.3-6 | fixed |
| slixmpp (PTS) | stretch | 1.2.2-1.1 | fixed |
| buster | 1.4.2-1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 1.7.0-2 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1.8.3-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1.8.5-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[jessie] - sleekxmpp <not-affected> (vulnerable code not present, XEP-0280 not implemented)
[wheezy] - sleekxmpp <not-affected> (vulnerable code not present, XEP-0280 not implemented)