Openfire: Multiple vulnerabilities — GLSA 201612-50

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Openfire, the worst of which could lead to privilege escalation.

Affected packages

Background

Openfire (formerly Wildfire) is a cross-platform real-time collaboration server based on the XMPP (Jabber) protocol.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Openfire. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A remote attacker could bypass the CSRF protection mechanism, conduct Cross-Site Scripting attacks, or an authenticated remote attacker could gain privileges while accessing Openfire’s web interface.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-im/openfire-4.1.0"
 

References

• CVE-2015-6972
• CVE-2015-6973
• CVE-2015-7707

Release date
December 31, 2016

Latest revision
December 31, 2016: 1

Severity
normal

Exploitable
remote

Bugzilla entries

• 603604