slixmpp version before commit 7cd73b594e8122dddf847953fcfc85ab4d316416 contains an incorrect Access Control vulnerability in XEP-0223 plugin (Persistent Storage of Private Data via PubSub) options profile, used for the configuration of default access model that can result in all of the contacts of the victim can see private data having been published to a PEP node. This attack appears to be exploitable if the user of this library publishes any private data on PEP, the node isn't configured to be private. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in commit 7cd73b594e8122dddf847953fcfc85ab4d316416 which is included in slixmpp 1.4.2.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - slixmpp version before commit 7cd73b594e8122dddf847953fcfc85ab4d316416 contains an incorrect Access     Control vulnerability in XEP-0223 plugin (Persistent Storage of Private Data via PubSub) options profile,     used for the configuration of default access model that can result in all of the contacts of the victim     can see private data having been published to a PEP node. This attack appears to be exploitable if the     user of this library publishes any private data on PEP, the node isn't configured to be private. This     vulnerability appears to have been fixed in commit 7cd73b594e8122dddf847953fcfc85ab4d316416 which is     included in slixmpp 1.4.2. (CVE-2019-1000021)

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Security fix for CVE-2019-1000021

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NVD reports :

slixmpp version before commit 7cd73b594e8122dddf847953fcfc85ab4d316416 contains an incorrect Access Control vulnerability in XEP-0223 plugin (Persistent Storage of Private Data via PubSub) options profile, used for the configuration of default access model that can result in all of the contacts of the victim can see private data having been published to a PEP node. This attack appears to be exploitable if the user of this library publishes any private data on PEP, the node isn't configured to be private. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in commit 7cd73b594e8122dddf847953fcfc85ab4d316416 which is included in slixmpp 1.4.2.

This update for python-slixmpp fixes the following issue :

Security issue fixed :

  - CVE-2019-1000021: Fixed incorrect Access Control     vulnerability in XEP-0223 plugin (bsc#1124322)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
259707	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2019-1000021	Nessus	Misc.	high
128438	Fedora 30 : python-slixmpp (2019-f40c49b99e)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
128435	Fedora 29 : python-slixmpp (2019-5a947d8603)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
122631	FreeBSD : slixmpp -- improper access control (526d9642-3ae7-11e9-a669-8c164582fbac)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	high
122177	openSUSE Security Update : python-slixmpp (openSUSE-2019-163)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high

Detections

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CVE-2019-1000021

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Tenable Plugins

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