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Cryptographic Issues

CVE-2016-10376

Medium
4.5/10

Summary

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.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • HIGH
  • HIGH
  • NONE

CWE-310 - Cryptographic Issues

Cryptographic issues is a category of weaknesses related to the design and implementation of the confidentiality and integrity of data. If not addressed, the weaknesses in this category can lead to data quality degradation.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published