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Fencer Intel
medium 4.5

CVE-2016-10376 json

Gajim through 0.16.7 unconditionally implements the "XEP-0146: Remote Controlling Clients" extension.

published 2017-05-28 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-1558

cvss
4.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.2%
EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 67%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Gajim through 0.16.7 unconditionally implements the "XEP-0146: Remote Controlling Clients" extension. This can be abused by malicious XMPP servers to, for example, extract plaintext from OTR encrypted sessions.

Patch / fix

  • gajim Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.16.6-1.1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10376

  • gajim openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.3.2-1.2

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10775-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-10376 updated cvss 7.5

gajim: XEP-0146 makes it possible to extract plain-text from OTR sessions

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 67% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 4.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 3.5 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.