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CVE-2017-5590

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% 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 ChatSecure (3.2.0 - 4.0.0; only iOS) and Zom (all versions up to 1.0.11; only iOS).

Affected products

• Chatsecure: 3.2.0, 3.2.1, 3.2.2, 3.2.3, 4.0.0
• Zom: through 1.0.11

References

• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/09/29
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96165
• https://github.com/ChatSecure/ChatSecure-iOS/commit/a340b4bb519227d89f85f2716a10a197a65d4856
• https://github.com/zom/Zom-iOS/commit/880051eaa8ba32d1b257c87a7d8798a93561bfd3
• 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/96165
• https://github.com/ChatSecure/ChatSecure-iOS/commit/a340b4bb519227d89f85f2716a10a197a65d4856
• https://github.com/zom/Zom-iOS/commit/880051eaa8ba32d1b257c87a7d8798a93561bfd3
• 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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