Gajim up to 0.16.7 Remote Controlling Clients Extension cryptographic issue

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Gajim up to 0.16.7. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component Remote Controlling Clients Extension. Performing a manipulation results in cryptographic issue. This vulnerability was named CVE-2016-10376. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Gajim up to 0.16.7. It has been classified as problematic. This affects an unknown functionality of the component Remote Controlling Clients Extension. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cryptographic issue vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-310. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The bug was discovered 05/26/2017. The weakness was presented 05/28/2017 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at bugs.debian.org. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2016-10376 since 05/27/2017. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The successful exploitation needs a authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1600 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 100516 (Debian DLA-967-1 : gajim security update), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Debian Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 176120 (Debian Security Update for gajim (DSA 3943-1)).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 2 days after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (100516). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Cryptographic issue
CWE: CWE-310
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Nessus ID: 100516
Nessus Name: Debian DLA-967-1 : gajim security update
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OpenVAS ID: 867773
OpenVAS Name: Fedora Update for gajim FEDORA-2017-62547837ba
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Patch: dev.gajim.org

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05/26/2017 🔍
05/27/2017 +1 days 🔍
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05/28/2017 +1 days 🔍
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05/31/2017 +1 days 🔍
12/07/2022 +2016 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: cb65cfc5aed9efe05208ebbb7fb2d41fcf7253cc
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2016-10376 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2016-10376
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-101823

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OSVDB: - CVE-2016-10376 - Gajim - Information Disclosure Issue

Entryinfo

Created: 05/28/2017 12:46
Updated: 12/07/2022 12:57
Changes: 05/28/2017 12:46 (71), 10/03/2020 17:18 (4), 12/07/2022 12:57 (5)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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