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CVE-2017-5592

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% 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 profanity (0.4.7 - 0.5.0).

Affected products

• Profanity Project Profanity: 0.4.7, 0.4.7-cyg1, 0.4.7-cyg2, 0.4.7-cyg3, 0.4.7-patch1, 0.5.0 (+1)

References

• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/09/29
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96173
• https://github.com/boothj5/profanity/commit/8e75437a7e43d4c55e861691f74892e666e29b0b
• 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/96173
• https://github.com/boothj5/profanity/commit/8e75437a7e43d4c55e861691f74892e666e29b0b
• 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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