Medium
Security advisory
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 Movim 0.8 - 0.10.
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- Affected versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-5605
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- 1 Nov 2026, 04:23 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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 Movim 0.8 - 0.10.
osv:CVE-2017-5605
Complete source record
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"https://rt-solutions.de/en/2017/02/CVE-2017-5589_xmpp_carbons/",
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