Security Advisory

CVE-2016-10027

5.9
MEDIUM

Vulnerability Description

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.
Published Date January 12, 2017
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory