What is CVE-2016-10376?

CVE-2016-10376 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gajim, classified under Cryptographic Issues. CVSS score: 4.5/10. Published 2017-05-28.

How severe is CVE-2016-10376?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Gajim

CVE-2016-10376

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.

Vulnerability class: POODLE (CVE-2014-3566)

Published 2017-05-28 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.012 (65.7th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 66th percentile — 65.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.012 · newest: 0.012 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Gajim

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-310 — Cryptographic Issues

References

dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/commit/cb65cfc5aed9efe05208ebbb7fb2d41fcf7253cc (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
mail.jabber.org/pipermail/standards/2016-August/031335.html (Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-14 (vendor-advisory)
www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3943 (vendor-advisory)
dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/issues/8378 (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
bugs.debian.org/863445 (Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-10376?: CVE-2016-10376 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gajim, classified under Cryptographic Issues. CVSS score: 4.5/10. Published 2017-05-28.
How severe is CVE-2016-10376?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.5 out of 10.