Message Processing Vulnerability in Cisco Jabber's XMPP Feature
CVE-2022-20917

4.3MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Cisco
Status
Cisco Jabber
Vendor
CVE Published:
15 September 2023

Badges

👾 Exploit Exists

Summary

A vulnerability exists within the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) message processing feature of Cisco Jabber, allowing authenticated remote attackers to exploit improperly handled nested XMPP messages. By sending carefully crafted XMPP messages to the targeted Jabber client, an attacker can potentially manipulate message content, resulting in the application performing unsafe actions. This issue highlights the importance of robust message processing safeguards in communication applications.

Affected Version(s)

Cisco Jabber 10.5(0)

Cisco Jabber 10.5(1)

Cisco Jabber 10.5(2)

References

https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/C...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
4.3
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • 👾

    Exploit known to exist

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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