Message Processing Vulnerability in Cisco Jabber's XMPP Feature

CVE-2022-20917

What is CVE-2022-20917?

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.

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