CVE-2017-5592

Name	CVE-2017-5592
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 profanity (0.4.7 - 0.5.0).
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	854735

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
profanity (PTS)	jessie	0.4.4-2	fixed
	buster	0.6.0-1	fixed
	bullseye	0.10.0-1	fixed
	bookworm	0.13.1-2	fixed
	sid, trixie	0.14.0-3	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
profanity	source	jessie	(not affected)
profanity	source	(unstable)	0.5.1-1			854735

[jessie] - profanity <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)