CVE-2016-10376

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-05-28 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-310

Description

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.

Affected products

Gajim: through 0.16.7

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3943
https://bugs.debian.org/863445
https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/commit/cb65cfc5aed9efe05208ebbb7fb2d41fcf7253cc
https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/issues/8378
https://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/standards/2016-August/031335.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-14
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3943
https://bugs.debian.org/863445
https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/commit/cb65cfc5aed9efe05208ebbb7fb2d41fcf7253cc
https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/issues/8378
https://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/standards/2016-August/031335.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-14

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