CVE-2017-5589

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5589
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-5589.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-5589
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-02-09T20:59:00.153Z
Modified
2026-04-11T03:11:42.174909Z
Severity
  • 5.9 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
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 yaxim and Bruno (0.8.6 - 0.8.8; Android).

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/ge0rg/yaxim

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/ge0rg/yaxim
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
be5abb31041c3da8bd96f3c60af254bb0a6029d5
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
cae23966f8516d76e2ee6f98711a2c7d4480f72f
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
7e91fd11dc7f831e50ce4511fb9419c5b48ee8c1
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
be5abb31041c3da8bd96f3c60af254bb0a6029d5
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
cae23966f8516d76e2ee6f98711a2c7d4480f72f
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
7e91fd11dc7f831e50ce4511fb9419c5b48ee8c1
Fixed
65a38dc77545d9568732189e86089390f0ceaf9f
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "0.8.6"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "0.8.7"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "0.8.8"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "0.8.6"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "0.8.7"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "0.8.8"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

0.*
0.7.1
0.7.2
0.7.3
0.7.5
0.7.6
0.7.7
0.8.0
0.8.1
0.8.2
0.8.3
0.8.4
0.8.5
0.8.6
0.8.6b
0.8.6b-bruno
0.8.7
0.8.7b
0.8.7b-bruno
0.8.8
0.8.8-bruno

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-5589.json"
vanir_signatures_modified 
"2026-04-11T03:11:42Z"
vanir_signatures 
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        },
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        "source": "https://github.com/ge0rg/yaxim/commit/65a38dc77545d9568732189e86089390f0ceaf9f",
        "signature_type": "Function",
        "deprecated": false,
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    },
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        },
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        },
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