Vulnerability Report

CVE-2016-10027

Title: Igniterealtime Smack Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2016-10027.

CWE Category CWE-362
Published Date Jan 12, 2017
Modified Date May 06, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 5.9 CVSS v3.1
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
1.52%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2016-10027: 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.

Impacted Vendors

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igniterealtime 1

Reference Links

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/22/12 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95129 https://community.igniterealtime.org/blogs/ignite/2016/11/22/smack-security-advisory-2016-11-22 https://github.com/igniterealtime/Smack/commit/059ee99ba0d5ff7758829acf5a9aeede09ec820b https://github.com/igniterealtime/Smack/commit/a9d5cd4a611f47123f9561bc5a81a4555fe7cb04 https://issues.igniterealtime.org/projects/SMACK/issues/SMACK-739 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J4WXAZ4JVJXHMEDDXJVWJHPVBF5QCTZF/ http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/22/12 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95129 https://community.igniterealtime.org/blogs/ignite/2016/11/22/smack-security-advisory-2016-11-22 https://github.com/igniterealtime/Smack/commit/059ee99ba0d5ff7758829acf5a9aeede09ec820b https://github.com/igniterealtime/Smack/commit/a9d5cd4a611f47123f9561bc5a81a4555fe7cb04 https://issues.igniterealtime.org/projects/SMACK/issues/SMACK-739 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J4WXAZ4JVJXHMEDDXJVWJHPVBF5QCTZF/
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
5.9
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
HIGH
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.3
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2016-10027 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK
Complexity HIGH
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.