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CVE-2022-45197

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-12-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-295

Description

Slixmpp before 1.8.3 lacks SSL Certificate hostname validation in XMLStream, allowing an attacker to pose as any server in the eyes of Slixmpp.

Affected products

• Slixmpp Project Slixmpp: before 1.8.3 — fixed in 1.8.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Slixmpp Project Slixmpp 1.8.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/poezio/slixmpp/commits/master/slixmpp/xmlstream/xmlstream.py
• https://github.com/poezio/slixmpp/tags
• https://lab.louiz.org/poezio/slixmpp/-/commit/b60b1b985db928532f97c4f61d6fbc801f0aa7fa
• https://lab.louiz.org/poezio/slixmpp/-/commits/master
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-07
• https://github.com/poezio/slixmpp/commits/master/slixmpp/xmlstream/xmlstream.py
• https://github.com/poezio/slixmpp/tags
• https://lab.louiz.org/poezio/slixmpp/-/commit/b60b1b985db928532f97c4f61d6fbc801f0aa7fa
• https://lab.louiz.org/poezio/slixmpp/-/commits/master
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-07

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