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Re: [xmpp] IQ Handling vulnerabilities

Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de> Sat, 08 February 2014 12:24 UTC

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Cc: Ben Campbell <ben@nostrum.com>, XMPP Working Group <xmpp@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: [xmpp] IQ Handling vulnerabilities
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Am 07.02.2014 16:57, schrieb Kevin Smith:

> There are various unlikely (and arguably unimportant, I suppose)
> issues around being able to observe where in a stream a client is. As
> an incredibly contrived example, client A shows client B an id that
> means "You are the first person I'm sending a message to this session"
> and user A says to user B "I'm busy chatting to C in another window".

I would call that information leaks but not vulnerabilities. So 
predictable IDs and resource names might lead to some information leaks, 
but not checking the from is a vulnerability.

Regards,

Alexader Holler

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