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CVE-2016-0756

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2016-01-28 prosody -- user impersonation vulnerability

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2016-0756
Phase Assigned(20151216)

Description

The generate_dialback function in the mod_dialback module in Prosody before 0.9.10 does not properly separate fields when generating dialback keys, which allows remote attackers to spoof XMPP network domains via a crafted stream id and domain name that is included in the target domain as a suffix.

References

Source Reference
MLIST [oss-security] 20160127 CVE-2016-0756: Prosody XMPP server: insecure dialback key generation/validation algorithm
CONFIRM http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-9-10-released/
CONFIRM https://prosody.im/issues/issue/596
CONFIRM https://prosody.im/security/advisory_20160127/