CVE-2017-5592: Profanity Project Profanity

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 0.8% 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 profanity (0.4.7 - 0.5.0).

Affected products

• Profanity Project Profanity: version 0.4.7 only; version 0.5.0 only

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