CVE-2017-5589: Yaxim Bruno

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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).

Affected products

• Yaxim Bruno: version 0.8.6 only; version 0.8.7 only; version 0.8.8 only
• Yaxim Yaxim: version 0.8.6 only; version 0.8.7 only; version 0.8.8 only

Published 2017-02-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.