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PYSEC-2017-104

Quick fix

PYSEC-2017-104 — slixmpp: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'slixmpp>=22664ee7b86c8e010f312b66d12590fb47160ad8'

Details

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 SleekXMPP up to 1.3.1 and Slixmpp all versions up to 1.2.3, as bundled in poezio (0.8 - 0.10) and other products.

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Affected packages

PyPI/slixmpp

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 22664ee7b86c8e010f312b66d12590fb47160ad8

Fixpip install --upgrade 'slixmpp>=22664ee7b86c8e010f312b66d12590fb47160ad8'

References

https://rt-solutions.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/CVE-2017-5589_xmpp_carbons.pdf[WEB]
https://rt-solutions.de/en/2017/02/CVE-2017-5589_xmpp_carbons/[WEB]
https://github.com/poezio/slixmpp/commit/22664ee7b86c8e010f312b66d12590fb47160ad8[FIX]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/09/29[WEB]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96166[WEB]
https://pypi.org/project/slixmpp[PACKAGE]
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5591[ADVISORY]