CVE-2017-5606: Xabber

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 Xabber (only if manually enabled: 1.0.30, 1.0.30 VIP, beta 1.0.3 - 1.0.74; Android).

Affected products

• Xabber Xabber: up to and including 1.0.30

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