Detections
Analytics
CVE-2017-5592
medium
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).
References
https://github.com/boothj5/profanity/commit/8e75437a7e43d4c55e861691f74892e666e29b0b