{"id":"CVE-2016-9928","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2016-9928","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T20:06:22.478Z","title":"MCabber before 1.0.4 is vulnerable to roster push attacks, which allows remote attackers to intercept communications, or add themselves as an entity on a 3rd party's roster as another user, which will also garner associated privileges, via crafted XMPP…","description":"MCabber before 1.0.4 is vulnerable to roster push attacks, which allows remote attackers to intercept communications, or add themselves as an entity on a 3rd party's roster as another user, which will also garner associated privileges, via crafted XMPP packets.","published":"2020-02-06T14:15:11.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T00:56:48.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"security@debian.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.4,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-269"],"affected":["mcabber/mcabber","canonical/ubuntu linux","debian/debian linux"],"epss":{"score":0.04512,"percentile":0.91471,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (4.51%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-01/msg00130.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@debian.org"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/11/2","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@debian.org"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/09/29","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@debian.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94862","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"security@debian.org"},{"url":"https://bitbucket.org/McKael/mcabber-crew/commits/6e1ead98930d7dd0a520ad17c720ae4908429033/raw","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@debian.org"},{"url":"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845258","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@debian.org"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1403790","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@debian.org"},{"url":"https://gultsch.de/gajim_roster_push_and_message_interception.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@debian.org"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00031.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@debian.org"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4506-1/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@debian.org"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-01/msg00130.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/11/2","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/09/29","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94862","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bitbucket.org/McKael/mcabber-crew/commits/6e1ead98930d7dd0a520ad17c720ae4908429033/raw","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845258","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1403790","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://gultsch.de/gajim_roster_push_and_message_interception.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00031.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4506-1/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9928","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}