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CVE-2017-5589

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-02-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

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 yaxim and Bruno (0.8.6 - 0.8.8; Android).

Affected products

• Yaxim Bruno: 0.8.6, 0.8.7, 0.8.8
• Yaxim: 0.8.6, 0.8.7, 0.8.8

References

• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/09/29
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96170
• https://github.com/ge0rg/yaxim/commit/65a38dc77545d9568732189e86089390f0ceaf9f
• https://rt-solutions.de/en/2017/02/CVE-2017-5589_xmpp_carbons/
• https://rt-solutions.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/CVE-2017-5589_xmpp_carbons.pdf
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/09/29
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96170
• https://github.com/ge0rg/yaxim/commit/65a38dc77545d9568732189e86089390f0ceaf9f
• https://rt-solutions.de/en/2017/02/CVE-2017-5589_xmpp_carbons/
• https://rt-solutions.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/CVE-2017-5589_xmpp_carbons.pdf

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