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CVE-2015-8688

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-01-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Gajim before 0.16.5 allows remote attackers to modify the roster and intercept messages via a crafted roster-push IQ stanza.

Affected products

• Gajim: through 0.16.4

References

• http://gultsch.de/gajim_roster_push_and_message_interception.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175503.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175526.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00027.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3492
• https://hg.gajim.org/gajim/file/gajim-0.16.5/ChangeLog
• http://gultsch.de/gajim_roster_push_and_message_interception.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175503.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175526.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00027.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3492
• https://hg.gajim.org/gajim/file/gajim-0.16.5/ChangeLog

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