igniterealtime/smack · Security
Smack allows the bypass of TLS protections
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-66pq-hqv5-228g
- CVE ID
- CVE-2016-10027
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 5.9 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 5.9 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Description
Race condition in the XMPP library in Smack before 4.1.9, when the SecurityMode.required TLS setting has been set, allows man-in-the-middle attackers to bypass TLS protections and trigger use of cleartext for client authentication by stripping the "starttls" feature from a server response.
CWEs
- CWE-362 · Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10027 ↗
- https://github.com/igniterealtime/Smack/commit/059ee99ba0d5ff7758829acf5a9aeede09ec820b ↗
- https://github.com/igniterealtime/Smack/commit/a9d5cd4a611f47123f9561bc5a81a4555fe7cb04 ↗
- https://community.igniterealtime.org/blogs/ignite/2016/11/22/smack-security-advisory-2016-11-22 ↗
- https://issues.igniterealtime.org/projects/SMACK/issues/SMACK-739 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/22/12 ↗
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J4WXAZ4JVJXHMEDDXJVWJHPVBF5QCTZF ↗
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/J4WXAZ4JVJXHMEDDXJVWJHPVBF5QCTZF ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-66pq-hqv5-228g ↗