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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2017-5605

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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1 Nov 2026, 04:23 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2017-5605

core-osv · Original source

Published 9 Feb 2017, 20:59 UTC

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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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-5605",
  "method": "structured",
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    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-5605",
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:18.285438121Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/movim/moxl/commit/838b0a42efc3b67cc17d63e25ae1d0ea849cd89b",
        "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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    },
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 429737,
  "published_at": "2017-02-09T20:59:00.497+00:00"
}